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<h1>The First Part of Henry the Fourth</h1>

<section id="dramatis-personae"><h2>Dramatis Personae</h2>

<ol class="persona-group">
  <li>KING HENRY, the Fourth. </li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="sons of the King">
  <li>HENRY, Prince of Wales</li>
  <li>JOHN of Lancaster</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group">
  <li>WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li>SIR WALTER BLUNT</li>
  <li>THOMAS PERCY, Earl of Worcester. </li>
  <li>HENRY PERCY, Earl of Northumberland. </li>
  <li>HENRY PERCY, surnamed HOTSPUR, his son. </li>
  <li>EDMUND MORTIMER, Earl of March. </li>
  <li>RICHARD SCROOP, Archbishop of York. </li>
  <li>ARCHIBALD, Earl of Douglas. </li>
  <li>OWEN GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>SIR RICHARD VERNON</li>
  <li>SIR JOHN FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>SIR MICHAEL, a friend to the Archbishop of York.</li>
  <li>POINS</li>
  <li>GADSHILL</li>
  <li>PETO</li>
  <li>BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>FRANCIS, a waiter.</li>
  <li>LADY PERCY, wife to Hotspur, and sister to Mortimer.</li>
  <li>LADY MORTIMER, daughter to Glendower, and wife to Mortimer.</li>
  <li>MISTRESS QUICKLY, hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap. </li>
  <li>Lords, Officers, Sheriff, Vintner, Chamberlain, Drawers, two Carriers, Travellers, Attendants, and an Ostler.</li>
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<h2>ACT I</h2>

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<h3>SCENE I.  London. The palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter KING HENRY, LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER, the EARL
of WESTMORELAND, SIR WALTER BLUNT, and others</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>So shaken as we are, so wan with care,</li>
  <li>Find we a time for frighted peace to pant,</li>
  <li>And breathe short-winded accents of new broils</li>
  <li>To be commenced in strands afar remote.</li>
  <li class="number">No more the thirsty entrance of this soil</li>
  <li>Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood;</li>
  <li>Nor more shall trenching war channel her fields,</li>
  <li>Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs</li>
  <li>Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes,</li>
  <li class="number">Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven,</li>
  <li>All of one nature, of one substance bred,</li>
  <li>Did lately meet in the intestine shock</li>
  <li>And furious close of civil butchery</li>
  <li>Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks,</li>
  <li class="number">March all one way and be no more opposed</li>
  <li>Against acquaintance, kindred and allies:</li>
  <li>The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife,</li>
  <li>No more shall cut his master. Therefore, friends,</li>
  <li>As far as to the sepulchre of Christ,</li>
  <li class="number">Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross</li>
  <li>We are impressed and engaged to fight,</li>
  <li>Forthwith a power of English shall we levy;</li>
  <li>Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb</li>
  <li>To chase these pagans in those holy fields</li>
  <li class="number">Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet</li>
  <li>Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd</li>
  <li>For our advantage on the bitter cross.</li>
  <li>But this our purpose now is twelve month old,</li>
  <li>And bootless 'tis to tell you we will go:</li>
  <li class="number">Therefore we meet not now. Then let me hear</li>
  <li>Of you, my gentle cousin Westmoreland,</li>
  <li>What yesternight our council did decree</li>
  <li>In forwarding this dear expedience.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li>My liege, this haste was hot in question,</li>
  <li class="number">And many limits of the charge set down</li>
  <li>But yesternight: when all athwart there came</li>
  <li>A post from Wales loaden with heavy news;</li>
  <li>Whose worst was, that the noble Mortimer,</li>
  <li>Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight</li>
  <li class="number">Against the irregular and wild Glendower,</li>
  <li>Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken,</li>
  <li>A thousand of his people butchered;</li>
  <li>Upon whose dead corpse there was such misuse,</li>
  <li>Such beastly shameless transformation,</li>
  <li class="number">By those Welshwomen done as may not be</li>
  <li>Without much shame retold or spoken of.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>It seems then that the tidings of this broil</li>
  <li>Brake off our business for the Holy Land.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li>This match'd with other did, my gracious lord;</li>
  <li class="number">For more uneven and unwelcome news</li>
  <li>Came from the north and thus it did import:</li>
  <li>On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there,</li>
  <li>Young Harry Percy and brave Archibald,</li>
  <li>That ever-valiant and approved Scot,</li>
  <li class="number">At Holmedon met,</li>
  <li>Where they did spend a sad and bloody hour,</li>
  <li>As by discharge of their artillery,</li>
  <li>And shape of likelihood, the news was told;</li>
  <li>For he that brought them, in the very heat</li>
  <li class="number">And pride of their contention did take horse,</li>
  <li>Uncertain of the issue any way.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>Here is a dear, a true industrious friend,</li>
  <li>Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse.</li>
  <li>Stain'd with the variation of each soil</li>
  <li class="number">Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours;</li>
  <li>And he hath brought us smooth and welcome news.</li>
  <li>The Earl of Douglas is discomfited:</li>
  <li>Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights,</li>
  <li>Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see</li>
  <li class="number">On Holmedon's plains. Of prisoners, Hotspur took</li>
  <li>Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son</li>
  <li>To beaten Douglas; and the Earl of Athol,</li>
  <li>Of Murray, Angus, and Menteith:</li>
  <li>And is not this an honourable spoil?</li>
  <li class="number">A gallant prize? ha, cousin, is it not?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li>In faith,</li>
  <li>It is a conquest for a prince to boast of.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>Yea, there thou makest me sad and makest me sin</li>
  <li>In envy that my Lord Northumberland</li>
  <li class="number">Should be the father to so blest a son,</li>
  <li>A son who is the theme of honour's tongue;</li>
  <li>Amongst a grove, the very straightest plant;</li>
  <li>Who is sweet Fortune's minion and her pride:</li>
  <li>Whilst I, by looking on the praise of him,</li>
  <li class="number">See riot and dishonour stain the brow</li>
  <li>Of my young Harry. O that it could be proved</li>
  <li>That some night-tripping fairy had exchanged</li>
  <li>In cradle-clothes our children where they lay,</li>
  <li>And call'd mine Percy, his Plantagenet!</li>
  <li class="number">Then would I have his Harry, and he mine.</li>
  <li>But let him from my thoughts. What think you, coz,</li>
  <li>Of this young Percy's pride? the prisoners,</li>
  <li>Which he in this adventure hath surprised,</li>
  <li>To his own use he keeps; and sends me word,</li>
  <li class="number">I shall have none but Mordake Earl of Fife.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li>This is his uncle's teaching; this is Worcester,</li>
  <li>Malevolent to you in all aspects;</li>
  <li>Which makes him prune himself, and bristle up</li>
  <li>The crest of youth against your dignity.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li class="number">But I have sent for him to answer this;</li>
  <li>And for this cause awhile we must neglect</li>
  <li>Our holy purpose to Jerusalem.</li>
  <li>Cousin, on Wednesday next our council we</li>
  <li>Will hold at Windsor; so inform the lords:</li>
  <li class="number">But come yourself with speed to us again;</li>
  <li>For more is to be said and to be done</li>
  <li>Than out of anger can be uttered.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li>I will, my liege.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  London. An apartment of the Prince's.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter the PRINCE OF WALES and FALSTAFF</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack</li>
  <li>and unbuttoning thee after supper and sleeping upon</li>
  <li>benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to</li>
  <li class="number">demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know.</li>
  <li>What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the</li>
  <li>day? Unless hours were cups of sack and minutes</li>
  <li>capons and clocks the tongues of bawds and dials the</li>
  <li>signs of leaping-houses and the blessed sun himself</li>
  <li class="number">a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no</li>
  <li>reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand</li>
  <li>the time of the day.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Indeed, you come near me now, Hal; for we that take</li>
  <li>purses go by the moon and the seven stars, and not</li>
  <li class="number">by Phoebus, he,'that wandering knight so fair.' And,</li>
  <li>I prithee, sweet wag, when thou art king, as, God</li>
  <li>save thy grace —  majesty I should say, for grace</li>
  <li>thou wilt have none —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>What, none?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">No, by my troth, not so much as will serve to</li>
  <li>prologue to an egg and butter.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Well, how then? come, roundly, roundly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not</li>
  <li>us that are squires of the night's body be called</li>
  <li class="number">thieves of the day's beauty: let us be Diana's</li>
  <li>foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the</li>
  <li>moon; and let men say we be men of good government,</li>
  <li>being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and</li>
  <li>chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Thou sayest well, and it holds well too; for the</li>
  <li>fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and</li>
  <li>flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is,</li>
  <li>by the moon. As, for proof, now: a purse of gold</li>
  <li>most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most</li>
  <li class="number">dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning; got with</li>
  <li>swearing 'Lay by' and spent with crying 'Bring in;'</li>
  <li>now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder</li>
  <li>and by and by in as high a flow as the ridge of the gallows.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>By the Lord, thou sayest true, lad. And is not my</li>
  <li class="number">hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle. And</li>
  <li>is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of durance?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>How now, how now, mad wag! what, in thy quips and</li>
  <li>thy quiddities? what a plague have I to do with a</li>
  <li class="number">buff jerkin?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Why, what a pox have I to do with my hostess of the tavern?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Well, thou hast called her to a reckoning many a</li>
  <li>time and oft.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Did I ever call for thee to pay thy part?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">No; I'll give thee thy due, thou hast paid all there.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Yea, and elsewhere, so far as my coin would stretch;</li>
  <li>and where it would not, I have used my credit.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Yea, and so used it that were it not here apparent</li>
  <li>that thou art heir apparent — But, I prithee, sweet</li>
  <li class="number">wag, shall there be gallows standing in England when</li>
  <li>thou art king? and resolution thus fobbed as it is</li>
  <li>with the rusty curb of old father antic the law? Do</li>
  <li>not thou, when thou art king, hang a thief.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>No; thou shalt.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">Shall I? O rare! By the Lord, I'll be a brave judge.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Thou judgest false already: I mean, thou shalt have</li>
  <li>the hanging of the thieves and so become a rare hangman.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Well, Hal, well; and in some sort it jumps with my</li>
  <li>humour as well as waiting in the court, I can tell</li>
  <li class="number">you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>For obtaining of suits?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Yea, for obtaining of suits, whereof the hangman</li>
  <li>hath no lean wardrobe. 'Sblood, I am as melancholy</li>
  <li>as a gib cat or a lugged bear.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Or an old lion, or a lover's lute.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Yea, or the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>What sayest thou to a hare, or the melancholy of</li>
  <li>Moor-ditch?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Thou hast the most unsavoury similes and art indeed</li>
  <li class="number">the most comparative, rascalliest, sweet young</li>
  <li>prince. But, Hal, I prithee, trouble me no more</li>
  <li>with vanity. I would to God thou and I knew where a</li>
  <li>commodity of good names were to be bought. An old</li>
  <li>lord of the council rated me the other day in the</li>
  <li class="number">street about you, sir, but I marked him not; and yet</li>
  <li>he talked very wisely, but I regarded him not; and</li>
  <li>yet he talked wisely, and in the street too.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Thou didst well; for wisdom cries out in the</li>
  <li>streets, and no man regards it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">O, thou hast damnable iteration and art indeed able</li>
  <li>to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon</li>
  <li>me, Hal; God forgive thee for it! Before I knew</li>
  <li>thee, Hal, I knew nothing; and now am I, if a man</li>
  <li>should speak truly, little better than one of the</li>
  <li class="number">wicked. I must give over this life, and I will give</li>
  <li>it over: by the Lord, and I do not, I am a villain:</li>
  <li>I'll be damned for never a king's son in</li>
  <li>Christendom.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Where shall we take a purse tomorrow, Jack?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">'Zounds, where thou wilt, lad; I'll make one; an I</li>
  <li>do not, call me villain and baffle me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>I see a good amendment of life in thee; from praying</li>
  <li>to purse-taking.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a</li>
  <li class="number">man to labour in his vocation.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter POINS</li>
  <li>Poins! Now shall we know if Gadshill have set a</li>
  <li>match. O, if men were to be saved by merit, what</li>
  <li>hole in hell were hot enough for him? This is the</li>
  <li>most omnipotent villain that ever cried 'Stand' to</li>
  <li class="number">a true man.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Good morrow, Ned.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Good morrow, sweet Hal. What says Monsieur Remorse?</li>
  <li>what says Sir John Sack and Sugar? Jack! how</li>
  <li>agrees the devil and thee about thy soul, that thou</li>
  <li class="number">soldest him on Good-Friday last for a cup of Madeira</li>
  <li>and a cold capon's leg?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Sir John stands to his word, the devil shall have</li>
  <li>his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of</li>
  <li>proverbs: he will give the devil his due.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li class="number">Then art thou damned for keeping thy word with the devil.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Else he had been damned for cozening the devil.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>But, my lads, my lads, to-morrow morning, by four</li>
  <li>o'clock, early at Gadshill! there are pilgrims going</li>
  <li>to Canterbury with rich offerings, and traders</li>
  <li class="number">riding to London with fat purses: I have vizards</li>
  <li>for you all; you have horses for yourselves:</li>
  <li>Gadshill lies to-night in Rochester: I have bespoke</li>
  <li>supper to-morrow night in Eastcheap: we may do it</li>
  <li>as secure as sleep. If you will go, I will stuff</li>
  <li class="number">your purses full of crowns; if you will not, tarry</li>
  <li>at home and be hanged.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Hear ye, Yedward; if I tarry at home and go not,</li>
  <li>I'll hang you for going.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>You will, chops?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">Hal, wilt thou make one?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Who, I rob? I a thief? not I, by my faith.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good</li>
  <li>fellowship in thee, nor thou camest not of the blood</li>
  <li>royal, if thou darest not stand for ten shillings.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Well then, once in my days I'll be a madcap.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Why, that's well said.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Well, come what will, I'll tarry at home.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>By the Lord, I'll be a traitor then, when thou art king.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>I care not.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li class="number">Sir John, I prithee, leave the prince and me alone:</li>
  <li>I will lay him down such reasons for this adventure</li>
  <li>that he shall go.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Well, God give thee the spirit of persuasion and him</li>
  <li>the ears of profiting, that what thou speakest may</li>
  <li class="number">move and what he hears may be believed, that the</li>
  <li>true prince may, for recreation sake, prove a false</li>
  <li>thief; for the poor abuses of the time want</li>
  <li>countenance. Farewell: you shall find me in Eastcheap.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Farewell, thou latter spring! farewell, All-hallown summer!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit Falstaff</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li class="number">Now, my good sweet honey lord, ride with us</li>
  <li>to-morrow: I have a jest to execute that I cannot</li>
  <li>manage alone. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto and Gadshill</li>
  <li>shall rob those men that we have already waylaid:</li>
  <li>yourself and I will not be there; and when they</li>
  <li class="number">have the booty, if you and I do not rob them, cut</li>
  <li>this head off from my shoulders.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>How shall we part with them in setting forth?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Why, we will set forth before or after them, and</li>
  <li>appoint them a place of meeting, wherein it is at</li>
  <li class="number">our pleasure to fail, and then will they adventure</li>
  <li>upon the exploit themselves; which they shall have</li>
  <li>no sooner achieved, but we'll set upon them.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Yea, but 'tis like that they will know us by our</li>
  <li>horses, by our habits and by every other</li>
  <li class="number">appointment, to be ourselves.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Tut! our horses they shall not see: I'll tie them</li>
  <li>in the wood; our vizards we will change after we</li>
  <li>leave them: and, sirrah, I have cases of buckram</li>
  <li>for the nonce, to immask our noted outward garments.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Yea, but I doubt they will be too hard for us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Well, for two of them, I know them to be as</li>
  <li>true-bred cowards as ever turned back; and for the</li>
  <li>third, if he fight longer than he sees reason, I'll</li>
  <li>forswear arms. The virtue of this jest will be, the</li>
  <li class="number">incomprehensible lies that this same fat rogue will</li>
  <li>tell us when we meet at supper: how thirty, at</li>
  <li>least, he fought with; what wards, what blows, what</li>
  <li>extremities he endured; and in the reproof of this</li>
  <li>lies the jest.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Well, I'll go with thee: provide us all things</li>
  <li>necessary and meet me to-morrow night in Eastcheap;</li>
  <li>there I'll sup. Farewell.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Farewell, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit Poins</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>I know you all, and will awhile uphold</li>
  <li class="number">The unyoked humour of your idleness:</li>
  <li>Yet herein will I imitate the sun,</li>
  <li>Who doth permit the base contagious clouds</li>
  <li>To smother up his beauty from the world,</li>
  <li>That, when he please again to be himself,</li>
  <li class="number">Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at,</li>
  <li>By breaking through the foul and ugly mists</li>
  <li>Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.</li>
  <li>If all the year were playing holidays,</li>
  <li>To sport would be as tedious as to work;</li>
  <li class="number">But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come,</li>
  <li>And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.</li>
  <li>So, when this loose behavior I throw off</li>
  <li>And pay the debt I never promised,</li>
  <li>By how much better than my word I am,</li>
  <li class="number">By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;</li>
  <li>And like bright metal on a sullen ground,</li>
  <li>My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,</li>
  <li>Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes</li>
  <li>Than that which hath no foil to set it off.</li>
  <li class="number">I'll so offend, to make offence a skill;</li>
  <li>Redeeming time when men think least I will.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  London. The palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter the KING, NORTHUMBERLAND, WORCESTER, HOTSPUR,
SIR WALTER BLUNT, with others</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>My blood hath been too cold and temperate,</li>
  <li>Unapt to stir at these indignities,</li>
  <li>And you have found me; for accordingly</li>
  <li>You tread upon my patience: but be sure</li>
  <li class="number">I will from henceforth rather be myself,</li>
  <li>Mighty and to be fear'd, than my condition;</li>
  <li>Which hath been smooth as oil, soft as young down,</li>
  <li>And therefore lost that title of respect</li>
  <li>Which the proud soul ne'er pays but to the proud.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li class="number">Our house, my sovereign liege, little deserves</li>
  <li>The scourge of greatness to be used on it;</li>
  <li>And that same greatness too which our own hands</li>
  <li>Have holp to make so portly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NORTHUMBERLAND</li>
  <li>My lord. — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li class="number">Worcester, get thee gone; for I do see</li>
  <li>Danger and disobedience in thine eye:</li>
  <li>O, sir, your presence is too bold and peremptory,</li>
  <li>And majesty might never yet endure</li>
  <li>The moody frontier of a servant brow.</li>
  <li class="number">You have good leave to leave us: when we need</li>
  <li>Your use and counsel, we shall send for you.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit Worcester</li>
  <li>You were about to speak.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">To North</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NORTHUMBERLAND</li>
  <li>Yea, my good lord.</li>
  <li>Those prisoners in your highness' name demanded,</li>
  <li class="number">Which Harry Percy here at Holmedon took,</li>
  <li>Were, as he says, not with such strength denied</li>
  <li>As is deliver'd to your majesty:</li>
  <li>Either envy, therefore, or misprison</li>
  <li>Is guilty of this fault and not my son.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li class="number">My liege, I did deny no prisoners.</li>
  <li>But I remember, when the fight was done,</li>
  <li>When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,</li>
  <li>Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword,</li>
  <li>Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd,</li>
  <li class="number">Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd</li>
  <li>Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home;</li>
  <li>He was perfumed like a milliner;</li>
  <li>And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held</li>
  <li>A pouncet-box, which ever and anon</li>
  <li class="number">He gave his nose and took't away again;</li>
  <li>Who therewith angry, when it next came there,</li>
  <li>Took it in snuff; and still he smiled and talk'd,</li>
  <li>And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,</li>
  <li>He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly,</li>
  <li class="number">To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse</li>
  <li>Betwixt the wind and his nobility.</li>
  <li>With many holiday and lady terms</li>
  <li>He question'd me; amongst the rest, demanded</li>
  <li>My prisoners in your majesty's behalf.</li>
  <li class="number">I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold,</li>
  <li>To be so pester'd with a popinjay,</li>
  <li>Out of my grief and my impatience,</li>
  <li>Answer'd neglectingly I know not what,</li>
  <li>He should or he should not; for he made me mad</li>
  <li class="number">To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet</li>
  <li>And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman</li>
  <li>Of guns and drums and wounds —  God save the mark! — </li>
  <li>And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth</li>
  <li>Was parmaceti for an inward bruise;</li>
  <li class="number">And that it was great pity, so it was,</li>
  <li>This villanous salt-petre should be digg'd</li>
  <li>Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,</li>
  <li>Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd</li>
  <li>So cowardly; and but for these vile guns,</li>
  <li class="number">He would himself have been a soldier.</li>
  <li>This bald unjointed chat of his, my lord,</li>
  <li>I answer'd indirectly, as I said;</li>
  <li>And I beseech you, let not his report</li>
  <li>Come current for an accusation</li>
  <li class="number">Betwixt my love and your high majesty.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SIR WALTER BLUNT</li>
  <li>The circumstance consider'd, good my lord,</li>
  <li>Whate'er Lord Harry Percy then had said</li>
  <li>To such a person and in such a place,</li>
  <li>At such a time, with all the rest retold,</li>
  <li class="number">May reasonably die and never rise</li>
  <li>To do him wrong or any way impeach</li>
  <li>What then he said, so he unsay it now.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>Why, yet he doth deny his prisoners,</li>
  <li>But with proviso and exception,</li>
  <li class="number">That we at our own charge shall ransom straight</li>
  <li>His brother-in-law, the foolish Mortimer;</li>
  <li>Who, on my soul, hath wilfully betray'd</li>
  <li>The lives of those that he did lead to fight</li>
  <li>Against that great magician, damn'd Glendower,</li>
  <li class="number">Whose daughter, as we hear, the Earl of March</li>
  <li>Hath lately married. Shall our coffers, then,</li>
  <li>Be emptied to redeem a traitor home?</li>
  <li>Shall we but treason? and indent with fears,</li>
  <li>When they have lost and forfeited themselves?</li>
  <li class="number">No, on the barren mountains let him starve;</li>
  <li>For I shall never hold that man my friend</li>
  <li>Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost</li>
  <li>To ransom home revolted Mortimer.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Revolted Mortimer!</li>
  <li class="number">He never did fall off, my sovereign liege,</li>
  <li>But by the chance of war; to prove that true</li>
  <li>Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds,</li>
  <li>Those mouthed wounds, which valiantly he took</li>
  <li>When on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank,</li>
  <li class="number">In single opposition, hand to hand,</li>
  <li>He did confound the best part of an hour</li>
  <li>In changing hardiment with great Glendower:</li>
  <li>Three times they breathed and three times did</li>
  <li>they drink,</li>
  <li class="number">Upon agreement, of swift Severn's flood;</li>
  <li>Who then, affrighted with their bloody looks,</li>
  <li>Ran fearfully among the trembling reeds,</li>
  <li>And hid his crisp head in the hollow bank,</li>
  <li>Bloodstained with these valiant combatants.</li>
  <li class="number">Never did base and rotten policy</li>
  <li>Colour her working with such deadly wounds;</li>
  <li>Nor could the noble Mortimer</li>
  <li>Receive so many, and all willingly:</li>
  <li>Then let not him be slander'd with revolt.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li class="number">Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him;</li>
  <li>He never did encounter with Glendower:</li>
  <li>I tell thee,</li>
  <li>He durst as well have met the devil alone</li>
  <li>As Owen Glendower for an enemy.</li>
  <li class="number">Art thou not ashamed? But, sirrah, henceforth</li>
  <li>Let me not hear you speak of Mortimer:</li>
  <li>Send me your prisoners with the speediest means,</li>
  <li>Or you shall hear in such a kind from me</li>
  <li>As will displease you. My Lord Northumberland,</li>
  <li class="number">We licence your departure with your son.</li>
  <li>Send us your prisoners, or you will hear of it.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt King Henry, Blunt, and train</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>An if the devil come and roar for them,</li>
  <li>I will not send them: I will after straight</li>
  <li>And tell him so; for I will ease my heart,</li>
  <li class="number">Albeit I make a hazard of my head.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NORTHUMBERLAND</li>
  <li>What, drunk with choler? stay and pause awhile:</li>
  <li>Here comes your uncle.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter WORCESTER</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Speak of Mortimer!</li>
  <li>'Zounds, I will speak of him; and let my soul</li>
  <li class="number">Want mercy, if I do not join with him:</li>
  <li>Yea, on his part I'll empty all these veins,</li>
  <li>And shed my dear blood drop by drop in the dust,</li>
  <li>But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer</li>
  <li>As high in the air as this unthankful king,</li>
  <li class="number">As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NORTHUMBERLAND</li>
  <li>Brother, the king hath made your nephew mad.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>Who struck this heat up after I was gone?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>He will, forsooth, have all my prisoners;</li>
  <li>And when I urged the ransom once again</li>
  <li class="number">Of my wife's brother, then his cheek look'd pale,</li>
  <li>And on my face he turn'd an eye of death,</li>
  <li>Trembling even at the name of Mortimer.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>I cannot blame him: was not he proclaim'd</li>
  <li>By Richard that dead is the next of blood?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NORTHUMBERLAND</li>
  <li class="number">He was; I heard the proclamation:</li>
  <li>And then it was when the unhappy king,</li>
  <li> — Whose wrongs in us God pardon! — did set forth</li>
  <li>Upon his Irish expedition;</li>
  <li>From whence he intercepted did return</li>
  <li class="number">To be deposed and shortly murdered.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>And for whose death we in the world's wide mouth</li>
  <li>Live scandalized and foully spoken of.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>But soft, I pray you; did King Richard then</li>
  <li>Proclaim my brother Edmund Mortimer</li>
  <li class="number">Heir to the crown?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NORTHUMBERLAND</li>
  <li>He did; myself did hear it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Nay, then I cannot blame his cousin king,</li>
  <li>That wished him on the barren mountains starve.</li>
  <li>But shall it be that you, that set the crown</li>
  <li class="number">Upon the head of this forgetful man</li>
  <li>And for his sake wear the detested blot</li>
  <li>Of murderous subornation, shall it be,</li>
  <li>That you a world of curses undergo,</li>
  <li>Being the agents, or base second means,</li>
  <li class="number">The cords, the ladder, or the hangman rather?</li>
  <li>O, pardon me that I descend so low,</li>
  <li>To show the line and the predicament</li>
  <li>Wherein you range under this subtle king;</li>
  <li>Shall it for shame be spoken in these days,</li>
  <li class="number">Or fill up chronicles in time to come,</li>
  <li>That men of your nobility and power</li>
  <li>Did gage them both in an unjust behalf,</li>
  <li>As both of you — God pardon it! — have done,</li>
  <li>To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose,</li>
  <li class="number">An plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke?</li>
  <li>And shall it in more shame be further spoken,</li>
  <li>That you are fool'd, discarded and shook off</li>
  <li>By him for whom these shames ye underwent?</li>
  <li>No; yet time serves wherein you may redeem</li>
  <li class="number">Your banish'd honours and restore yourselves</li>
  <li>Into the good thoughts of the world again,</li>
  <li>Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt</li>
  <li>Of this proud king, who studies day and night</li>
  <li>To answer all the debt he owes to you</li>
  <li class="number">Even with the bloody payment of your deaths:</li>
  <li>Therefore, I say — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>Peace, cousin, say no more:</li>
  <li>And now I will unclasp a secret book,</li>
  <li>And to your quick-conceiving discontents</li>
  <li class="number">I'll read you matter deep and dangerous,</li>
  <li>As full of peril and adventurous spirit</li>
  <li>As to o'er-walk a current roaring loud</li>
  <li>On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>If he fall in, good night! or sink or swim:</li>
  <li class="number">Send danger from the east unto the west,</li>
  <li>So honour cross it from the north to south,</li>
  <li>And let them grapple: O, the blood more stirs</li>
  <li>To rouse a lion than to start a hare!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NORTHUMBERLAND</li>
  <li>Imagination of some great exploit</li>
  <li class="number">Drives him beyond the bounds of patience.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap,</li>
  <li>To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon,</li>
  <li>Or dive into the bottom of the deep,</li>
  <li>Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,</li>
  <li class="number">And pluck up drowned honour by the locks;</li>
  <li>So he that doth redeem her thence might wear</li>
  <li>Without corrival, all her dignities:</li>
  <li>But out upon this half-faced fellowship!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>He apprehends a world of figures here,</li>
  <li class="number">But not the form of what he should attend.</li>
  <li>Good cousin, give me audience for a while.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>I cry you mercy.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>Those same noble Scots</li>
  <li>That are your prisoners —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li class="number">I'll keep them all;</li>
  <li>By God, he shall not have a Scot of them;</li>
  <li>No, if a Scot would save his soul, he shall not:</li>
  <li>I'll keep them, by this hand.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>You start away</li>
  <li class="number">And lend no ear unto my purposes.</li>
  <li>Those prisoners you shall keep.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Nay, I will; that's flat:</li>
  <li>He said he would not ransom Mortimer;</li>
  <li>Forbad my tongue to speak of Mortimer;</li>
  <li class="number">But I will find him when he lies asleep,</li>
  <li>And in his ear I'll holla 'Mortimer!'</li>
  <li>Nay,</li>
  <li>I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak</li>
  <li>Nothing but 'Mortimer,' and give it him</li>
  <li class="number">To keep his anger still in motion.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>Hear you, cousin; a word.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>All studies here I solemnly defy,</li>
  <li>Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke:</li>
  <li>And that same sword-and-buckler Prince of Wales,</li>
  <li class="number">But that I think his father loves him not</li>
  <li>And would be glad he met with some mischance,</li>
  <li>I would have him poison'd with a pot of ale.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>Farewell, kinsman: I'll talk to you</li>
  <li>When you are better temper'd to attend.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NORTHUMBERLAND</li>
  <li class="number">Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool</li>
  <li>Art thou to break into this woman's mood,</li>
  <li>Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourged with rods,</li>
  <li>Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear</li>
  <li class="number">Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.</li>
  <li>In Richard's time —  what do you call the place? — </li>
  <li>A plague upon it, it is in Gloucestershire;</li>
  <li>'Twas where the madcap duke his uncle kept,</li>
  <li>His uncle York; where I first bow'd my knee</li>
  <li class="number">Unto this king of smiles, this Bolingbroke —  </li>
  <li>'Sblood! — </li>
  <li>When you and he came back from Ravenspurgh.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NORTHUMBERLAND</li>
  <li>At Berkley castle.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>You say true:</li>
  <li class="number">Why, what a candy deal of courtesy</li>
  <li>This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!</li>
  <li>Look,'when his infant fortune came to age,'</li>
  <li>And 'gentle Harry Percy,' and 'kind cousin;'</li>
  <li>O, the devil take such cozeners! God forgive me!</li>
  <li class="number">Good uncle, tell your tale; I have done.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>Nay, if you have not, to it again;</li>
  <li>We will stay your leisure.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>I have done, i' faith.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>Then once more to your Scottish prisoners.</li>
  <li class="number">Deliver them up without their ransom straight,</li>
  <li>And make the Douglas' son your only mean</li>
  <li>For powers in Scotland; which, for divers reasons</li>
  <li>Which I shall send you written, be assured,</li>
  <li>Will easily be granted. You, my lord,</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To Northumberland</li>
  <li class="number">Your son in Scotland being thus employ'd,</li>
  <li>Shall secretly into the bosom creep</li>
  <li>Of that same noble prelate, well beloved,</li>
  <li>The archbishop.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Of York, is it not?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li class="number">True; who bears hard</li>
  <li>His brother's death at Bristol, the Lord Scroop.</li>
  <li>I speak not this in estimation,</li>
  <li>As what I think might be, but what I know</li>
  <li>Is ruminated, plotted and set down,</li>
  <li class="number">And only stays but to behold the face</li>
  <li>Of that occasion that shall bring it on.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>I smell it: upon my life, it will do well.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NORTHUMBERLAND</li>
  <li>Before the game is afoot, thou still let'st slip.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Why, it cannot choose but be a noble plot;</li>
  <li class="number">And then the power of Scotland and of York,</li>
  <li>To join with Mortimer, ha?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>And so they shall.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>In faith, it is exceedingly well aim'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>And 'tis no little reason bids us speed,</li>
  <li class="number">To save our heads by raising of a head;</li>
  <li>For, bear ourselves as even as we can,</li>
  <li>The king will always think him in our debt,</li>
  <li>And think we think ourselves unsatisfied,</li>
  <li>Till he hath found a time to pay us home:</li>
  <li class="number">And see already how he doth begin</li>
  <li>To make us strangers to his looks of love.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>He does, he does: we'll be revenged on him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>Cousin, farewell: no further go in this</li>
  <li>Than I by letters shall direct your course.</li>
  <li class="number">When time is ripe, which will be suddenly,</li>
  <li>I'll steal to Glendower and Lord Mortimer;</li>
  <li>Where you and Douglas and our powers at once,</li>
  <li>As I will fashion it, shall happily meet,</li>
  <li>To bear our fortunes in our own strong arms,</li>
  <li class="number">Which now we hold at much uncertainty.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NORTHUMBERLAND</li>
  <li>Farewell, good brother: we shall thrive, I trust.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Uncle, Adieu: O, let the hours be short</li>
  <li>Till fields and blows and groans applaud our sport!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT II</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  Rochester. An inn yard.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter a Carrier with a lantern in his hand</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Carrier</li>
  <li>Heigh-ho! an it be not four by the day, I'll be</li>
  <li>hanged: Charles' wain is over the new chimney, and</li>
  <li>yet our horse not packed. What, ostler!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Ostler</li>
  <li>Within   Anon, anon.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Carrier</li>
  <li class="number">I prithee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks</li>
  <li>in the point; poor jade, is wrung in the withers out</li>
  <li>of all cess.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter another Carrier</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Carrier</li>
  <li>Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that</li>
  <li>is the next way to give poor jades the bots: this</li>
  <li class="number">house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Carrier</li>
  <li>Poor fellow, never joyed since the price of oats</li>
  <li>rose; it was the death of him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Carrier</li>
  <li>I think this be the most villanous house in all</li>
  <li>London road for fleas: I am stung like a tench.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Carrier</li>
  <li class="number">Like a tench! by the mass, there is ne'er a king</li>
  <li>christen could be better bit than I have been since</li>
  <li>the first cock.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Carrier</li>
  <li>Why, they will allow us ne'er a jordan, and then we</li>
  <li>leak in your chimney; and your chamber-lie breeds</li>
  <li class="number">fleas like a loach.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Carrier</li>
  <li>What, ostler! come away and be hanged!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Carrier</li>
  <li>I have a gammon of bacon and two razors of ginger,</li>
  <li>to be delivered as far as Charing-cross.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Carrier</li>
  <li>God's body! the turkeys in my pannier are quite</li>
  <li class="number">starved. What, ostler! A plague on thee! hast thou</li>
  <li>never an eye in thy head? canst not hear? An</li>
  <li>'twere not as good deed as drink, to break the pate</li>
  <li>on thee, I am a very villain. Come, and be hanged!</li>
  <li>hast thou no faith in thee?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter GADSHILL</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GADSHILL</li>
  <li class="number">Good morrow, carriers. What's o'clock?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Carrier</li>
  <li>I think it be two o'clock.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GADSHILL</li>
  <li>I pray thee lend me thy lantern, to see my gelding</li>
  <li>in the stable.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Carrier</li>
  <li>Nay, by God, soft; I know a trick worth two of that, i' faith.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GADSHILL</li>
  <li class="number">I pray thee, lend me thine.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Carrier</li>
  <li>Ay, when? can'st tell? Lend me thy lantern, quoth</li>
  <li>he? marry, I'll see thee hanged first.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GADSHILL</li>
  <li>Sirrah carrier, what time do you mean to come to London?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Carrier</li>
  <li>Time enough to go to bed with a candle, I warrant</li>
  <li class="number">thee. Come, neighbour Mugs, we'll call up the</li>
  <li>gentleman: they will along with company, for they</li>
  <li>have great charge.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt carriers</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GADSHILL</li>
  <li>What, ho! chamberlain!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Chamberlain</li>
  <li>Within  At hand, quoth pick-purse.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GADSHILL</li>
  <li class="number">That's even as fair as — at hand, quoth the</li>
  <li>chamberlain; for thou variest no more from picking</li>
  <li>of purses than giving direction doth from labouring;</li>
  <li>thou layest the plot how.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter Chamberlain</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Chamberlain</li>
  <li>Good morrow, Master Gadshill. It holds current that</li>
  <li class="number">I told you yesternight: there's a franklin in the</li>
  <li>wild of Kent hath brought three hundred marks with</li>
  <li>him in gold: I heard him tell it to one of his</li>
  <li>company last night at supper; a kind of auditor; one</li>
  <li>that hath abundance of charge too, God knows what.</li>
  <li class="number">They are up already, and call for eggs and butter;</li>
  <li>they will away presently.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GADSHILL</li>
  <li>Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas'</li>
  <li>clerks, I'll give thee this neck.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Chamberlain</li>
  <li>No, I'll none of it: I pray thee keep that for the</li>
  <li class="number">hangman; for I know thou worshippest St. Nicholas</li>
  <li>as truly as a man of falsehood may.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GADSHILL</li>
  <li>What talkest thou to me of the hangman? if I hang,</li>
  <li>I'll make a fat pair of gallows; for if I hang, old</li>
  <li>Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no</li>
  <li class="number">starveling. Tut! there are other Trojans that thou</li>
  <li>dreamest not of, the which for sport sake are</li>
  <li>content to do the profession some grace; that would,</li>
  <li>if matters should be looked into, for their own</li>
  <li>credit sake, make all whole. I am joined with no</li>
  <li class="number">foot-land rakers, no long-staff sixpenny strikers,</li>
  <li>none of these mad mustachio purple-hued malt-worms;</li>
  <li>but with nobility and tranquillity, burgomasters and</li>
  <li>great oneyers, such as can hold in, such as will</li>
  <li>strike sooner than speak, and speak sooner than</li>
  <li class="number">drink, and drink sooner than pray: and yet, zounds,</li>
  <li>I lie; for they pray continually to their saint, the</li>
  <li>commonwealth; or rather, not pray to her, but prey</li>
  <li>on her, for they ride up and down on her and make</li>
  <li>her their boots.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Chamberlain</li>
  <li class="number">What, the commonwealth their boots? will she hold</li>
  <li>out water in foul way?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GADSHILL</li>
  <li>She will, she will; justice hath liquored her. We</li>
  <li>steal as in a castle, cocksure; we have the receipt</li>
  <li>of fern-seed, we walk invisible.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Chamberlain</li>
  <li class="number">Nay, by my faith, I think you are more beholding to</li>
  <li>the night than to fern-seed for your walking invisible.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GADSHILL</li>
  <li>Give me thy hand: thou shalt have a share in our</li>
  <li>purchase, as I am a true man.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Chamberlain</li>
  <li>Nay, rather let me have it, as you are a false thief.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GADSHILL</li>
  <li class="number">Go to; 'homo' is a common name to all men. Bid the</li>
  <li>ostler bring my gelding out of the stable. Farewell,</li>
  <li>you muddy knave.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  The highway, near Gadshill.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Come, shelter, shelter: I have removed Falstaff's</li>
  <li>horse, and he frets like a gummed velvet.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Stand close.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter FALSTAFF</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Poins! Poins, and be hanged! Poins!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal! what a brawling dost</li>
  <li>thou keep!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Where's Poins, Hal?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>He is walked up to the top of the hill: I'll go seek him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>I am accursed to rob in that thief's company: the</li>
  <li class="number">rascal hath removed my horse, and tied him I know</li>
  <li>not where. If I travel but four foot by the squier</li>
  <li>further afoot, I shall break my wind. Well, I doubt</li>
  <li>not but to die a fair death for all this, if I</li>
  <li>'scape hanging for killing that rogue. I have</li>
  <li class="number">forsworn his company hourly any time this two and</li>
  <li>twenty years, and yet I am bewitched with the</li>
  <li>rogue's company. If the rascal hath not given me</li>
  <li>medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged; it</li>
  <li>could not be else: I have drunk medicines. Poins!</li>
  <li class="number">Hal! a plague upon you both! Bardolph! Peto!</li>
  <li>I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further. An 'twere</li>
  <li>not as good a deed as drink, to turn true man and to</li>
  <li>leave these rogues, I am the veriest varlet that</li>
  <li>ever chewed with a tooth. Eight yards of uneven</li>
  <li class="number">ground is threescore and ten miles afoot with me;</li>
  <li>and the stony-hearted villains know it well enough:</li>
  <li>a plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">They whistle</li>
  <li>Whew! A plague upon you all! Give me my horse, you</li>
  <li>rogues; give me my horse, and be hanged!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Peace, ye fat-guts! lie down; lay thine ear close</li>
  <li>to the ground and list if thou canst hear the tread</li>
  <li>of travellers.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Have you any levers to lift me up again, being down?</li>
  <li>'Sblood, I'll not bear mine own flesh so far afoot</li>
  <li class="number">again for all the coin in thy father's exchequer.</li>
  <li>What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Thou liest; thou art not colted, thou art uncolted.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>I prithee, good Prince Hal, help me to my horse,</li>
  <li>good king's son.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Out, ye rogue! shall I be your ostler?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Go, hang thyself in thine own heir-apparent</li>
  <li>garters! If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. An I</li>
  <li>have not ballads made on you all and sung to filthy</li>
  <li>tunes, let a cup of sack be my poison: when a jest</li>
  <li class="number">is so forward, and afoot too! I hate it.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter GADSHILL, BARDOLPH and PETO</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GADSHILL</li>
  <li>Stand.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>So I do, against my will.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>O, 'tis our setter: I know his voice. Bardolph,</li>
  <li>what news?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li class="number">Case ye, case ye; on with your vizards: there 's</li>
  <li>money of the king's coming down the hill; 'tis going</li>
  <li>to the king's exchequer.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>You lie, ye rogue; 'tis going to the king's tavern.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GADSHILL</li>
  <li>There's enough to make us all.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">To be hanged.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Sirs, you four shall front them in the narrow lane;</li>
  <li>Ned Poins and I will walk lower: if they 'scape</li>
  <li>from your encounter, then they light on us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PETO</li>
  <li>How many be there of them?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GADSHILL</li>
  <li class="number">Some eight or ten.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>'Zounds, will they not rob us?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>What, a coward, Sir John Paunch?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Indeed, I am not John of Gaunt, your grandfather;</li>
  <li>but yet no coward, Hal.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Well, we leave that to the proof.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Sirrah Jack, thy horse stands behind the hedge:</li>
  <li>when thou needest him, there thou shalt find him.</li>
  <li>Farewell, and stand fast.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Now cannot I strike him, if I should be hanged.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Ned, where are our disguises?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Here, hard by: stand close.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt PRINCE HENRY and POINS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I:</li>
  <li>every man to his business.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter the Travellers</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Traveller</li>
  <li>Come, neighbour: the boy shall lead our horses down</li>
  <li class="number">the hill; we'll walk afoot awhile, and ease our legs.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Thieves</li>
  <li>Stand!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Travellers</li>
  <li>Jesus bless us!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Strike; down with them; cut the villains' throats:</li>
  <li>ah! whoreson caterpillars! bacon-fed knaves! they</li>
  <li class="number">hate us youth: down with them: fleece them.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Travellers</li>
  <li>O, we are undone, both we and ours for ever!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? No, ye</li>
  <li>fat chuffs: I would your store were here! On,</li>
  <li>bacons, on! What, ye knaves! young men must live.</li>
  <li class="number">You are Grand-jurors, are ye? we'll jure ye, 'faith.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Here they rob them and bind them. Exeunt</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>The thieves have bound the true men. Now could thou</li>
  <li>and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London, it</li>
  <li>would be argument for a week, laughter for a month</li>
  <li>and a good jest for ever.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li class="number">Stand close; I hear them coming.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter the Thieves again</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Come, my masters, let us share, and then to horse</li>
  <li>before day. An the Prince and Poins be not two</li>
  <li>arrant cowards, there's no equity stirring: there's</li>
  <li>no more valour in that Poins than in a wild-duck.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Your money!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Villains!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">As they are sharing, the Prince and Poins set upon
them; they all run away; and Falstaff, after a blow
or two, runs away too, leaving the booty behind them</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Got with much ease. Now merrily to horse:</li>
  <li>The thieves are all scatter'd and possess'd with fear</li>
  <li>So strongly that they dare not meet each other;</li>
  <li class="number">Each takes his fellow for an officer.</li>
  <li>Away, good Ned. Falstaff sweats to death,</li>
  <li>And lards the lean earth as he walks along:</li>
  <li>Were 't not for laughing, I should pity him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>How the rogue roar'd!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  Warkworth castle</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter HOTSPUR, solus, reading a letter</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>'But for mine own part, my lord, I could be well</li>
  <li>contented to be there, in respect of the love I bear</li>
  <li>your house.' He could be contented: why is he not,</li>
  <li>then? In respect of the love he bears our house:</li>
  <li class="number">he shows in this, he loves his own barn better than</li>
  <li>he loves our house. Let me see some more. 'The</li>
  <li>purpose you undertake is dangerous;' — why, that's</li>
  <li>certain: 'tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to</li>
  <li>drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this</li>
  <li class="number">nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. 'The</li>
  <li>purpose you undertake is dangerous; the friends you</li>
  <li>have named uncertain; the time itself unsorted; and</li>
  <li>your whole plot too light for the counterpoise of so</li>
  <li>great an opposition.' Say you so, say you so? I say</li>
  <li class="number">unto you again, you are a shallow cowardly hind, and</li>
  <li>you lie.  What a lack-brain is this! By the Lord,</li>
  <li>our plot is a good plot as ever was laid; our</li>
  <li>friends true and constant: a good plot, good</li>
  <li>friends, and full of expectation; an excellent plot,</li>
  <li class="number">very good friends. What a frosty-spirited rogue is</li>
  <li>this! Why, my lord of York commends the plot and the</li>
  <li>general course of action. 'Zounds, an I were now by</li>
  <li>this rascal, I could brain him with his lady's fan.</li>
  <li>Is there not my father, my uncle and myself? lord</li>
  <li class="number">Edmund Mortimer, My lord of York and Owen Glendower?</li>
  <li>is there not besides the Douglas? have I not all</li>
  <li>their letters to meet me in arms by the ninth of the</li>
  <li>next month? and are they not some of them set</li>
  <li>forward already? What a pagan rascal is this! an</li>
  <li class="number">infidel! Ha! you shall see now in very sincerity</li>
  <li>of fear and cold heart, will he to the king and lay</li>
  <li>open all our proceedings. O, I could divide myself</li>
  <li>and go to buffets, for moving such a dish of</li>
  <li>skim milk with so honourable an action! Hang him!</li>
  <li class="number">let him tell the king: we are prepared. I will set</li>
  <li>forward to-night.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter LADY PERCY</li>
  <li>How now, Kate! I must leave you within these two hours.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LADY PERCY</li>
  <li>O, my good lord, why are you thus alone?</li>
  <li>For what offence have I this fortnight been</li>
  <li class="number">A banish'd woman from my Harry's bed?</li>
  <li>Tell me, sweet lord, what is't that takes from thee</li>
  <li>Thy stomach, pleasure and thy golden sleep?</li>
  <li>Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth,</li>
  <li>And start so often when thou sit'st alone?</li>
  <li class="number">Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks;</li>
  <li>And given my treasures and my rights of thee</li>
  <li>To thick-eyed musing and cursed melancholy?</li>
  <li>In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watch'd,</li>
  <li>And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars;</li>
  <li class="number">Speak terms of manage to thy bounding steed;</li>
  <li>Cry 'Courage! to the field!' And thou hast talk'd</li>
  <li>Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents,</li>
  <li>Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets,</li>
  <li>Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin,</li>
  <li class="number">Of prisoners' ransom and of soldiers slain,</li>
  <li>And all the currents of a heady fight.</li>
  <li>Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war</li>
  <li>And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleep,</li>
  <li>That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow</li>
  <li class="number">Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream;</li>
  <li>And in thy face strange motions have appear'd,</li>
  <li>Such as we see when men restrain their breath</li>
  <li>On some great sudden hest. O, what portents are these?</li>
  <li>Some heavy business hath my lord in hand,</li>
  <li class="number">And I must know it, else he loves me not.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>What, ho!</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter Servant</li>
  <li>Is Gilliams with the packet gone?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Servant</li>
  <li>He is, my lord, an hour ago.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Hath Butler brought those horses from the sheriff?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Servant</li>
  <li class="number">One horse, my lord, he brought even now.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>What horse? a roan, a crop-ear, is it not?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Servant</li>
  <li>It is, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>That roan shall by my throne.</li>
  <li>Well, I will back him straight: O esperance!</li>
  <li class="number">Bid Butler lead him forth into the park.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit Servant</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LADY PERCY</li>
  <li>But hear you, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>What say'st thou, my lady?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LADY PERCY</li>
  <li>What is it carries you away?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Why, my horse, my love, my horse.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LADY PERCY</li>
  <li class="number">Out, you mad-headed ape!</li>
  <li>A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen</li>
  <li>As you are toss'd with. In faith,</li>
  <li>I'll know your business, Harry, that I will.</li>
  <li>I fear my brother Mortimer doth stir</li>
  <li class="number">About his title, and hath sent for you</li>
  <li>To line his enterprise: but if you go —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>So far afoot, I shall be weary, love.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LADY PERCY</li>
  <li>Come, come, you paraquito, answer me</li>
  <li>Directly unto this question that I ask:</li>
  <li class="number">In faith, I'll break thy little finger, Harry,</li>
  <li>An if thou wilt not tell me all things true.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Away,</li>
  <li>Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not,</li>
  <li>I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world</li>
  <li class="number">To play with mammets and to tilt with lips:</li>
  <li>We must have bloody noses and crack'd crowns,</li>
  <li>And pass them current too. God's me, my horse!</li>
  <li>What say'st thou, Kate? what would'st thou</li>
  <li>have with me?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LADY PERCY</li>
  <li class="number">Do you not love me? do you not, indeed?</li>
  <li>Well, do not then; for since you love me not,</li>
  <li>I will not love myself. Do you not love me?</li>
  <li>Nay, tell me if you speak in jest or no.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Come, wilt thou see me ride?</li>
  <li class="number">And when I am on horseback, I will swear</li>
  <li>I love thee infinitely. But hark you, Kate;</li>
  <li>I must not have you henceforth question me</li>
  <li>Whither I go, nor reason whereabout:</li>
  <li>Whither I must, I must; and, to conclude,</li>
  <li class="number">This evening must I leave you, gentle Kate.</li>
  <li>I know you wise, but yet no farther wise</li>
  <li>Than Harry Percy's wife: constant you are,</li>
  <li>But yet a woman: and for secrecy,</li>
  <li>No lady closer; for I well believe</li>
  <li class="number">Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know;</li>
  <li>And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LADY PERCY</li>
  <li>How! so far?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Not an inch further. But hark you, Kate:</li>
  <li>Whither I go, thither shall you go too;</li>
  <li class="number">To-day will I set forth, to-morrow you.</li>
  <li>Will this content you, Kate?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LADY PERCY</li>
  <li>It must of force.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE IV.  The Boar's-Head Tavern, Eastcheap.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Ned, prithee, come out of that fat room, and lend me</li>
  <li>thy hand to laugh a little.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Where hast been, Hal?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>With three or four loggerheads amongst three or four</li>
  <li class="number">score hogsheads. I have sounded the very</li>
  <li>base-string of humility. Sirrah, I am sworn brother</li>
  <li>to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by</li>
  <li>their christen names, as Tom, Dick, and Francis.</li>
  <li>They take it already upon their salvation, that</li>
  <li class="number">though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king</li>
  <li>of courtesy; and tell me flatly I am no proud Jack,</li>
  <li>like Falstaff, but a Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a</li>
  <li>good boy, by the Lord, so they call me, and when I</li>
  <li>am king of England, I shall command all the good</li>
  <li class="number">lads in Eastcheap. They call drinking deep, dyeing</li>
  <li>scarlet; and when you breathe in your watering, they</li>
  <li>cry  'hem!' and bid you play it off. To conclude, I</li>
  <li>am so good a proficient in one quarter of an hour,</li>
  <li>that I can drink with any tinker in his own language</li>
  <li class="number">during my life. I tell thee, Ned, thou hast lost</li>
  <li>much honour, that thou wert not with me in this sweet</li>
  <li>action. But, sweet Ned —  to sweeten which name of</li>
  <li>Ned, I give thee this pennyworth of sugar, clapped</li>
  <li>even now into my hand by an under-skinker, one that</li>
  <li class="number">never spake other English in his life than 'Eight</li>
  <li>shillings and sixpence' and 'You are welcome,' with</li>
  <li>this shrill addition, 'Anon, anon, sir! Score a pint</li>
  <li>of bastard in the Half-Moon,' or so. But, Ned, to</li>
  <li>drive away the time till Falstaff come, I prithee,</li>
  <li class="number">do thou stand in some by-room, while I question my</li>
  <li>puny drawer to what end he gave me the sugar; and do</li>
  <li>thou never leave calling 'Francis,' that his tale</li>
  <li>to me may be nothing but 'Anon.' Step aside, and</li>
  <li>I'll show thee a precedent.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li class="number">Francis!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Thou art perfect.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Francis!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit POINS</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter FRANCIS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FRANCIS</li>
  <li>Anon, anon, sir. Look down into the Pomgarnet, Ralph.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Come hither, Francis.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FRANCIS</li>
  <li class="number">My lord?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>How long hast thou to serve, Francis?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FRANCIS</li>
  <li>Forsooth, five years, and as much as to — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Within  Francis!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FRANCIS</li>
  <li>Anon, anon, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Five year! by'r lady, a long lease for the clinking</li>
  <li>of pewter. But, Francis, darest thou be so valiant</li>
  <li>as to play the coward with thy indenture and show it</li>
  <li>a fair pair of heels and run from it?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FRANCIS</li>
  <li>O Lord, sir, I'll be sworn upon all the books in</li>
  <li class="number">England, I could find in my heart.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Within  Francis!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FRANCIS</li>
  <li>Anon, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>How old art thou, Francis?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FRANCIS</li>
  <li>Let me see — about Michaelmas next I shall be — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li class="number">Within  Francis!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FRANCIS</li>
  <li>Anon, sir. Pray stay a little, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Nay, but hark you, Francis: for the sugar thou</li>
  <li>gavest me,'twas a pennyworth, wast't not?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FRANCIS</li>
  <li>O Lord, I would it had been two!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">I will give thee for it a thousand pound: ask me</li>
  <li>when thou wilt, and thou shalt have it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Within  Francis!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FRANCIS</li>
  <li>Anon, anon.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Anon, Francis? No, Francis; but to-morrow, Francis;</li>
  <li class="number">or, Francis, o' Thursday; or indeed, Francis, when</li>
  <li>thou wilt. But, Francis!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FRANCIS</li>
  <li>My lord?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Wilt thou rob this leathern jerkin, crystal-button,</li>
  <li>not-pated, agate-ring, puke-stocking, caddis-garter,</li>
  <li class="number">smooth-tongue, Spanish-pouch —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FRANCIS</li>
  <li>O Lord, sir, who do you mean?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Why, then, your brown bastard is your only drink;</li>
  <li>for look you, Francis, your white canvas doublet</li>
  <li>will sully: in Barbary, sir, it cannot come to so much.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FRANCIS</li>
  <li class="number">What, sir?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Within  Francis!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Away, you rogue! dost thou not hear them call?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Here they both call him; the drawer stands amazed,
not knowing which way to go</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter Vintner</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Vintner</li>
  <li>What, standest thou still, and hearest such a</li>
  <li>calling? Look to the guests within.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit Francis</li>
  <li class="number">My lord, old Sir John, with half-a-dozen more, are</li>
  <li>at the door: shall I let them in?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Let them alone awhile, and then open the door.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit Vintner</li>
  <li>Poins!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter POINS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Anon, anon, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Sirrah, Falstaff and the rest of the thieves are at</li>
  <li>the door: shall we be merry?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>As merry as crickets, my lad. But hark ye; what</li>
  <li>cunning match have you made with this jest of the</li>
  <li>drawer? come, what's the issue?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">I am now of all humours that have showed themselves</li>
  <li>humours since the old days of goodman Adam to the</li>
  <li>pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Re-enter FRANCIS</li>
  <li>What's o'clock, Francis?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FRANCIS</li>
  <li>Anon, anon, sir.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">That ever this fellow should have fewer words than a</li>
  <li>parrot, and yet the son of a woman! His industry is</li>
  <li>upstairs and downstairs; his eloquence the parcel of</li>
  <li>a reckoning. I am not yet of Percy's mind, the</li>
  <li>Hotspur of the north; he that kills me some six or</li>
  <li class="number">seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his</li>
  <li>hands, and says to his wife 'Fie upon this quiet</li>
  <li>life! I want work.' 'O my sweet Harry,' says she,</li>
  <li>'how many hast thou killed to-day?' 'Give my roan</li>
  <li>horse a drench,' says he; and answers 'Some</li>
  <li class="number">fourteen,' an hour after; 'a trifle, a trifle.' I</li>
  <li>prithee, call in Falstaff: I'll play Percy, and</li>
  <li>that damned brawn shall play Dame Mortimer his</li>
  <li>wife. 'Rivo!' says the drunkard. Call in ribs, call in tallow.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter FALSTAFF, GADSHILL, BARDOLPH, and PETO;
FRANCIS following with wine</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Welcome, Jack: where hast thou been?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too!</li>
  <li>marry, and amen! Give me a cup of sack, boy. Ere I</li>
  <li>lead this life long, I'll sew nether stocks and mend</li>
  <li>them and foot them too. A plague of all cowards!</li>
  <li>Give me a cup of sack, rogue. Is there no virtue extant?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">He drinks</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Didst thou never see Titan kiss a dish of butter?</li>
  <li>pitiful-hearted Titan, that melted at the sweet tale</li>
  <li>of the sun's! if thou didst, then behold that compound.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>You rogue, here's lime in this sack too: there is</li>
  <li>nothing but roguery to be found in villanous man:</li>
  <li class="number">yet a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime</li>
  <li>in it. A villanous coward! Go thy ways, old Jack;</li>
  <li>die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be</li>
  <li>not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a</li>
  <li>shotten herring. There live not three good men</li>
  <li class="number">unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and</li>
  <li>grows old: God help the while! a bad world, I say.</li>
  <li>I would I were a weaver; I could sing psalms or any</li>
  <li>thing. A plague of all cowards, I say still.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>How now, wool-sack! what mutter you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">A king's son! If I do not beat thee out of thy</li>
  <li>kingdom with a dagger of lath, and drive all thy</li>
  <li>subjects afore thee like a flock of wild-geese,</li>
  <li>I'll never wear hair on my face more. You Prince of Wales!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Why, you whoreson round man, what's the matter?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">Are not you a coward? answer me to that: and Poins there?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>'Zounds, ye fat paunch, an ye call me coward, by the</li>
  <li>Lord, I'll stab thee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>I call thee coward! I'll see thee damned ere I call</li>
  <li>thee coward: but I would give a thousand pound I</li>
  <li class="number">could run as fast as thou canst. You are straight</li>
  <li>enough in the shoulders, you care not who sees your</li>
  <li>back: call you that backing of your friends? A</li>
  <li>plague upon such backing! give me them that will</li>
  <li>face me. Give me a cup of sack: I am a rogue, if I</li>
  <li class="number">drunk to-day.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>O villain! thy lips are scarce wiped since thou</li>
  <li>drunkest last.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>All's one for that.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">He drinks</li>
  <li>A plague of all cowards, still say I.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">What's the matter?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>What's the matter! there be four of us here have</li>
  <li>ta'en a thousand pound this day morning.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Where is it, Jack? where is it?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Where is it! taken from us it is: a hundred upon</li>
  <li class="number">poor four of us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>What, a hundred, man?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>I am a rogue, if I were not at half-sword with a</li>
  <li>dozen of them two hours together. I have 'scaped by</li>
  <li>miracle. I am eight times thrust through the</li>
  <li class="number">doublet, four through the hose; my buckler cut</li>
  <li>through and through; my sword hacked like a</li>
  <li>hand-saw — ecce signum! I never dealt better since</li>
  <li>I was a man: all would not do. A plague of all</li>
  <li>cowards! Let them speak: if they speak more or</li>
  <li class="number">less than truth, they are villains and the sons of darkness.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Speak, sirs; how was it?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GADSHILL</li>
  <li>We four set upon some dozen — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Sixteen at least, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GADSHILL</li>
  <li>And bound them.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PETO</li>
  <li class="number">No, no, they were not bound.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>You rogue, they were bound, every man of them; or I</li>
  <li>am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GADSHILL</li>
  <li>As we were sharing, some six or seven fresh men set upon us — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>And unbound the rest, and then come in the other.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">What, fought you with them all?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>All! I know not what you call all; but if I fought</li>
  <li>not with fifty of them, I am a bunch of radish: if</li>
  <li>there were not two or three and fifty upon poor old</li>
  <li>Jack, then am I no two-legged creature.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Pray God you have not murdered some of them.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Nay, that's past praying for: I have peppered two</li>
  <li>of them; two I am sure I have paid, two rogues</li>
  <li>in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell</li>
  <li>thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse. Thou</li>
  <li class="number">knowest my old ward; here I lay and thus I bore my</li>
  <li>point. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>What, four? thou saidst but two even now.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Four, Hal; I told thee four.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Ay, ay, he said four.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">These four came all a-front, and mainly thrust at</li>
  <li>me. I made me no more ado but took all their seven</li>
  <li>points in my target, thus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Seven? why, there were but four even now.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>In buckram?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li class="number">Ay, four, in buckram suits.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Seven, by these hilts, or I am a villain else.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Prithee, let him alone; we shall have more anon.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Dost thou hear me, Hal?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Ay, and mark thee too, Jack.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">Do so, for it is worth the listening to. These nine</li>
  <li>in buckram that I told thee of — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>So, two more already.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Their points being broken —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Down fell their hose.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">Began to give me ground: but I followed me close,</li>
  <li>came in foot and hand; and with a thought seven of</li>
  <li>the eleven I paid.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>O monstrous! eleven buckram men grown out of two!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>But, as the devil would have it, three misbegotten</li>
  <li class="number">knaves in Kendal green came at my back and let drive</li>
  <li>at me; for it was so dark, Hal, that thou couldst</li>
  <li>not see thy hand.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>These lies are like their father that begets them;</li>
  <li>gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Why, thou</li>
  <li class="number">clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou</li>
  <li>whoreson, obscene, grease tallow-catch —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>What, art thou mad? art thou mad? is not the truth</li>
  <li>the truth?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Why, how couldst thou know these men in Kendal</li>
  <li class="number">green, when it was so dark thou couldst not see thy</li>
  <li>hand? come, tell us your reason: what sayest thou to this?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Come, your reason, Jack, your reason.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>What, upon compulsion? 'Zounds, an I were at the</li>
  <li>strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would</li>
  <li class="number">not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on</li>
  <li>compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as</li>
  <li>blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon</li>
  <li>compulsion, I.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>I'll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine</li>
  <li class="number">coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker,</li>
  <li>this huge hill of flesh —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried</li>
  <li>neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O</li>
  <li>for breath to utter what is like thee! you</li>
  <li class="number">tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile</li>
  <li>standing-tuck —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Well, breathe awhile, and then to it again: and</li>
  <li>when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons,</li>
  <li>hear me speak but this.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li class="number">Mark, Jack.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>We two saw you four set on four and bound them, and</li>
  <li>were masters of their wealth. Mark now, how a plain</li>
  <li>tale shall put you down. Then did we two set on you</li>
  <li>four; and, with a word, out-faced you from your</li>
  <li class="number">prize, and have it; yea, and can show it you here in</li>
  <li>the house: and, Falstaff, you carried your guts</li>
  <li>away as nimbly, with as quick dexterity, and roared</li>
  <li>for mercy and still run and roared, as ever I heard</li>
  <li>bull-calf. What a slave art thou, to hack thy sword</li>
  <li class="number">as thou hast done, and then say it was in fight!</li>
  <li>What trick, what device, what starting-hole, canst</li>
  <li>thou now find out to hide thee from this open and</li>
  <li>apparent shame?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>Come, let's hear, Jack; what trick hast thou now?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made ye.</li>
  <li>Why, hear you, my masters: was it for me to kill the</li>
  <li>heir-apparent? should I turn upon the true prince?</li>
  <li>why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules: but</li>
  <li>beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true</li>
  <li class="number">prince. Instinct is a great matter; I was now a</li>
  <li>coward on instinct. I shall think the better of</li>
  <li>myself and thee during my life; I for a valiant</li>
  <li>lion, and thou for a true prince. But, by the Lord,</li>
  <li>lads, I am glad you have the money. Hostess, clap</li>
  <li class="number">to the doors: watch to-night, pray to-morrow.</li>
  <li>Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles</li>
  <li>of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be</li>
  <li>merry? shall we have a play extempore?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Content; and the argument shall be thy running away.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">Ah, no more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter Hostess</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>O Jesu, my lord the prince!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>How now, my lady the hostess! what sayest thou to</li>
  <li>me?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>Marry, my lord, there is a nobleman of the court at</li>
  <li class="number">door would speak with you: he says he comes from</li>
  <li>your father.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Give him as much as will make him a royal man, and</li>
  <li>send him back again to my mother.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>What manner of man is he?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li class="number">An old man.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? Shall</li>
  <li>I give him his answer?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Prithee, do, Jack.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>'Faith, and I'll send him packing.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit FALSTAFF</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Now, sirs: by'r lady, you fought fair; so did you,</li>
  <li>Peto; so did you, Bardolph: you are lions too, you</li>
  <li>ran away upon instinct, you will not touch the true</li>
  <li>prince; no, fie!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>'Faith, I ran when I saw others run.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">'Faith, tell me now in earnest, how came Falstaff's</li>
  <li>sword so hacked?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PETO</li>
  <li>Why, he hacked it with his dagger, and said he would</li>
  <li>swear truth out of England but he would make you</li>
  <li>believe it was done in fight, and persuaded us to do the like.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li class="number">Yea, and to tickle our noses with spear-grass to</li>
  <li>make them bleed, and then to beslubber our garments</li>
  <li>with it and swear it was the blood of true men. I</li>
  <li>did that I did not this seven year before, I blushed</li>
  <li>to hear his monstrous devices.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">O villain, thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen years</li>
  <li>ago, and wert taken with the manner, and ever since</li>
  <li>thou hast blushed extempore. Thou hadst fire and</li>
  <li>sword on thy side, and yet thou rannest away: what</li>
  <li>instinct hadst thou for it?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li class="number">My lord, do you see these meteors? do you behold</li>
  <li>these exhalations?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>I do.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>What think you they portend?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Hot livers and cold purses.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li class="number">Choler, my lord, if rightly taken.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>No, if rightly taken, halter.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Re-enter FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Here comes lean Jack, here comes bare-bone.</li>
  <li>How now, my sweet creature of bombast!</li>
  <li>How long is't ago, Jack, since thou sawest thine own knee?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">My own knee! when I was about thy years, Hal, I was</li>
  <li>not an eagle's talon in the waist; I could have</li>
  <li>crept into any alderman's thumb-ring: a plague of</li>
  <li>sighing and grief! it blows a man up like a</li>
  <li>bladder. There's villanous news abroad: here was</li>
  <li class="number">Sir John Bracy from your father; you must to the</li>
  <li>court in the morning. That same mad fellow of the</li>
  <li>north, Percy, and he of Wales, that gave Amamon the</li>
  <li>bastinado and made Lucifer cuckold and swore the</li>
  <li>devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh</li>
  <li class="number">hook — what a plague call you him?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POINS</li>
  <li>O, Glendower.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Owen, Owen, the same; and his son-in-law Mortimer,</li>
  <li>and old Northumberland, and that sprightly Scot of</li>
  <li>Scots, Douglas, that runs o' horseback up a hill</li>
  <li class="number">perpendicular —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>He that rides at high speed and with his pistol</li>
  <li>kills a sparrow flying.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>You have hit it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>So did he never the sparrow.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">Well, that rascal hath good mettle in him; he will not run.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Why, what a rascal art thou then, to praise him so</li>
  <li>for running!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>O' horseback, ye cuckoo; but afoot he will not budge a foot.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Yes, Jack, upon instinct.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">I grant ye, upon instinct. Well, he is there too,</li>
  <li>and one Mordake, and a thousand blue-caps more:</li>
  <li>Worcester is stolen away to-night; thy father's</li>
  <li>beard is turned white with the news: you may buy</li>
  <li>land now as cheap as stinking mackerel.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Why, then, it is like, if there come a hot June and</li>
  <li>this civil buffeting hold, we shall buy maidenheads</li>
  <li>as they buy hob-nails, by the hundreds.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>By the mass, lad, thou sayest true; it is like we</li>
  <li>shall have good trading that way. But tell me, Hal,</li>
  <li class="number">art not thou horrible afeard? thou being</li>
  <li>heir-apparent, could the world pick thee out three</li>
  <li>such enemies again as that fiend Douglas, that</li>
  <li>spirit Percy, and that devil Glendower? Art thou</li>
  <li>not horribly afraid? doth not thy blood thrill at</li>
  <li class="number">it?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Not a whit, i' faith; I lack some of thy instinct.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Well, thou wert be horribly chid tomorrow when thou</li>
  <li>comest to thy father: if thou love me, practise an answer.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Do thou stand for my father, and examine me upon the</li>
  <li class="number">particulars of my life.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Shall I? content: this chair shall be my state,</li>
  <li>this dagger my sceptre, and this cushion my crown.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Thy state is taken for a joined-stool, thy golden</li>
  <li>sceptre for a leaden dagger, and thy precious rich</li>
  <li class="number">crown for a pitiful bald crown!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Well, an the fire of grace be not quite out of thee,</li>
  <li>now shalt thou be moved. Give me a cup of sack to</li>
  <li>make my eyes look red, that it may be thought I have</li>
  <li>wept; for I must speak in passion, and I will do it</li>
  <li class="number">in King Cambyses' vein.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Well, here is my leg.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>And here is my speech. Stand aside, nobility.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>O Jesu, this is excellent sport, i' faith!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Weep not, sweet queen; for trickling tears are vain.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li class="number">O, the father, how he holds his countenance!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>For God's sake, lords, convey my tristful queen;</li>
  <li>For tears do stop the flood-gates of her eyes.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>O Jesu, he doth it as like one of these harlotry</li>
  <li>players as ever I see!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">Peace, good pint-pot; peace, good tickle-brain.</li>
  <li>Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy</li>
  <li>time, but also how thou art accompanied: for though</li>
  <li>the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster</li>
  <li>it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the</li>
  <li class="number">sooner it wears. That thou art my son, I have</li>
  <li>partly thy mother's word, partly my own opinion,</li>
  <li>but chiefly a villanous trick of thine eye and a</li>
  <li>foolish-hanging of thy nether lip, that doth warrant</li>
  <li>me. If then thou be son to me, here lies the point;</li>
  <li class="number">why, being son to me, art thou so pointed at? Shall</li>
  <li>the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat</li>
  <li>blackberries? a question not to be asked. Shall</li>
  <li>the sun of England prove a thief and take purses? a</li>
  <li>question to be asked. There is a thing, Harry,</li>
  <li class="number">which thou hast often heard of and it is known to</li>
  <li>many in our land by the name of pitch: this pitch,</li>
  <li>as ancient writers do report, doth defile; so doth</li>
  <li>the company thou keepest: for, Harry, now I do not</li>
  <li>speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in</li>
  <li class="number">pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in</li>
  <li>woes also: and yet there is a virtuous man whom I</li>
  <li>have often noted in thy company, but I know not his name.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>What manner of man, an it like your majesty?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a</li>
  <li class="number">cheerful look, a pleasing eye and a most noble</li>
  <li>carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or,</li>
  <li>by'r lady, inclining to three score; and now I</li>
  <li>remember me, his name is Falstaff: if that man</li>
  <li>should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me; for, Harry,</li>
  <li class="number">I see virtue in his looks. If then the tree may be</li>
  <li>known by the fruit, as the fruit by the tree, then,</li>
  <li>peremptorily I speak it, there is virtue in that</li>
  <li>Falstaff: him keep with, the rest banish. And tell</li>
  <li>me now, thou naughty varlet, tell me, where hast</li>
  <li class="number">thou been this month?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Dost thou speak like a king? Do thou stand for me,</li>
  <li>and I'll play my father.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Depose me? if thou dost it half so gravely, so</li>
  <li>majestically, both in word and matter, hang me up by</li>
  <li class="number">the heels for a rabbit-sucker or a poulter's hare.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Well, here I am set.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>And here I stand: judge, my masters.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Now, Harry, whence come you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>My noble lord, from Eastcheap.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">The complaints I hear of thee are grievous.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>'Sblood, my lord, they are false: nay, I'll tickle</li>
  <li>ye for a young prince, i' faith.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Swearest thou, ungracious boy? henceforth ne'er look</li>
  <li>on me. Thou art violently carried away from grace:</li>
  <li class="number">there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an</li>
  <li>old fat man; a tun of man is thy companion. Why</li>
  <li>dost thou converse with that trunk of humours, that</li>
  <li>bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel</li>
  <li>of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed</li>
  <li class="number">cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with</li>
  <li>the pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that</li>
  <li>grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in</li>
  <li>years? Wherein is he good, but to taste sack and</li>
  <li>drink it? wherein neat and cleanly, but to carve a</li>
  <li class="number">capon and eat it? wherein cunning, but in craft?</li>
  <li>wherein crafty, but in villany? wherein villanous,</li>
  <li>but in all things? wherein worthy, but in nothing?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>I would your grace would take me with you: whom</li>
  <li>means your grace?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">That villanous abominable misleader of youth,</li>
  <li>Falstaff, that old white-bearded Satan.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>My lord, the man I know.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>I know thou dost.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>But to say I know more harm in him than in myself,</li>
  <li class="number">were to say more than I know. That he is old, the</li>
  <li>more the pity, his white hairs do witness it; but</li>
  <li>that he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster,</li>
  <li>that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault,</li>
  <li>God help the wicked! if to be old and merry be a</li>
  <li class="number">sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if</li>
  <li>to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine</li>
  <li>are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish Peto,</li>
  <li>banish Bardolph, banish Poins: but for sweet Jack</li>
  <li>Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff,</li>
  <li class="number">valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant,</li>
  <li>being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him</li>
  <li>thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's</li>
  <li>company: banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>I do, I will.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">A knocking heard</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt Hostess, FRANCIS, and BARDOLPH</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter BARDOLPH, running</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li class="number">O, my lord, my lord! the sheriff with a most</li>
  <li>monstrous watch is at the door.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Out, ye rogue! Play out the play: I have much to</li>
  <li>say in the behalf of that Falstaff.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter the Hostess</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>O Jesu, my lord, my lord!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Heigh, heigh! the devil rides upon a fiddlestick:</li>
  <li>what's the matter?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>The sheriff and all the watch are at the door: they</li>
  <li>are come to search the house. Shall I let them in?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Dost thou hear, Hal? never call a true piece of</li>
  <li class="number">gold a counterfeit: thou art essentially mad,</li>
  <li>without seeming so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>And thou a natural coward, without instinct.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>I deny your major: if you will deny the sheriff,</li>
  <li>so; if not, let him enter: if I become not a cart</li>
  <li class="number">as well as another man, a plague on my bringing up!</li>
  <li>I hope I shall as soon be strangled with a halter as another.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Go, hide thee behind the arras: the rest walk up</li>
  <li>above. Now, my masters, for a true face and good</li>
  <li>conscience.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">Both which I have had: but their date is out, and</li>
  <li>therefore I'll hide me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Call in the sheriff.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exeunt all except PRINCE HENRY and PETO</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter Sheriff and the Carrier</li>
  <li>Now, master sheriff, what is your will with me?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Sheriff</li>
  <li>First, pardon me, my lord. A hue and cry</li>
  <li class="number">Hath follow'd certain men unto this house.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>What men?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Sheriff</li>
  <li>One of them is well known, my gracious lord,</li>
  <li>A gross fat man.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Carrier</li>
  <li>As fat as butter.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">The man, I do assure you, is not here;</li>
  <li>For I myself at this time have employ'd him.</li>
  <li>And, sheriff, I will engage my word to thee</li>
  <li>That I will, by to-morrow dinner-time,</li>
  <li>Send him to answer thee, or any man,</li>
  <li class="number">For any thing he shall be charged withal:</li>
  <li>And so let me entreat you leave the house.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Sheriff</li>
  <li>I will, my lord. There are two gentlemen</li>
  <li>Have in this robbery lost three hundred marks.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>It may be so: if he have robb'd these men,</li>
  <li class="number">He shall be answerable; and so farewell.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Sheriff</li>
  <li>Good night, my noble lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>I think it is good morrow, is it not?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Sheriff</li>
  <li>Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o'clock.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt Sheriff and Carrier</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>This oily rascal is known as well as Paul's. Go,</li>
  <li class="number">call him forth.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PETO</li>
  <li>Falstaff! — Fast asleep behind the arras, and</li>
  <li>snorting like a horse.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Hark, how hard he fetches breath. Search his pockets.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">He searcheth his pockets, and findeth certain papers</li>
  <li>What hast thou found?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PETO</li>
  <li class="number">Nothing but papers, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Let's see what they be: read them.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PETO</li>
  <li>Reads  Item, A capon,. . 2s. 2d.</li>
  <li>Item, Sauce,. . . 4d.</li>
  <li>Item, Sack, two gallons, 5s. 8d.</li>
  <li class="number">Item, Anchovies and sack after supper, 2s. 6d.</li>
  <li>Item, Bread,        ob.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>O monstrous! but one half-penny-worth of bread to</li>
  <li>this intolerable deal of sack! What there is else,</li>
  <li>keep close; we'll read it at more advantage: there</li>
  <li class="number">let him sleep till day. I'll to the court in the</li>
  <li>morning. We must all to the wars, and thy place</li>
  <li>shall be honourable. I'll procure this fat rogue a</li>
  <li>charge of foot; and I know his death will be a</li>
  <li>march of twelve-score. The money shall be paid</li>
  <li class="number">back again with advantage. Be with me betimes in</li>
  <li>the morning; and so, good morrow, Peto.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PETO</li>
  <li>Good morrow, good my lord.</li>
</ol>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT III</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  Bangor. The Archdeacon's house.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, MORTIMER, and GLENDOWER</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MORTIMER</li>
  <li>These promises are fair, the parties sure,</li>
  <li>And our induction full of prosperous hope.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Lord Mortimer, and cousin Glendower,</li>
  <li>Will you sit down?</li>
  <li class="number">And uncle Worcester: a plague upon it!</li>
  <li>I have forgot the map.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>No, here it is.</li>
  <li>Sit, cousin Percy; sit, good cousin Hotspur,</li>
  <li>For by that name as oft as Lancaster</li>
  <li class="number">Doth speak of you, his cheek looks pale and with</li>
  <li>A rising sigh he wisheth you in heaven.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>And you in hell, as oft as he hears Owen Glendower spoke of.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>I cannot blame him: at my nativity</li>
  <li>The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,</li>
  <li class="number">Of burning cressets; and at my birth</li>
  <li>The frame and huge foundation of the earth</li>
  <li>Shaked like a coward.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Why, so it would have done at the same season, if</li>
  <li>your mother's cat had but kittened, though yourself</li>
  <li class="number">had never been born.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>I say the earth did shake when I was born.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>And I say the earth was not of my mind,</li>
  <li>If you suppose as fearing you it shook.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li class="number">O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire,</li>
  <li>And not in fear of your nativity.</li>
  <li>Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth</li>
  <li>In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth</li>
  <li>Is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vex'd</li>
  <li class="number">By the imprisoning of unruly wind</li>
  <li>Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving,</li>
  <li>Shakes the old beldam earth and topples down</li>
  <li>Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth</li>
  <li>Our grandam earth, having this distemperature,</li>
  <li class="number">In passion shook.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>Cousin, of many men</li>
  <li>I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave</li>
  <li>To tell you once again that at my birth</li>
  <li>The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,</li>
  <li class="number">The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds</li>
  <li>Were strangely clamorous to the frighted fields.</li>
  <li>These signs have mark'd me extraordinary;</li>
  <li>And all the courses of my life do show</li>
  <li>I am not in the roll of common men.</li>
  <li class="number">Where is he living, clipp'd in with the sea</li>
  <li>That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales,</li>
  <li>Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me?</li>
  <li>And bring him out that is but woman's son</li>
  <li>Can trace me in the tedious ways of art</li>
  <li class="number">And hold me pace in deep experiments.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>I think there's no man speaks better Welsh.</li>
  <li>I'll to dinner.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MORTIMER</li>
  <li>Peace, cousin Percy; you will make him mad.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>I can call spirits from the vasty deep.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li class="number">Why, so can I, or so can any man;</li>
  <li>But will they come when you do call for them?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command</li>
  <li>The devil.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil</li>
  <li class="number">By telling truth: tell truth and shame the devil.</li>
  <li>If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither,</li>
  <li>And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence.</li>
  <li>O, while you live, tell truth and shame the devil!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MORTIMER</li>
  <li>Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li class="number">Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head</li>
  <li>Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye</li>
  <li>And sandy-bottom'd Severn have I sent him</li>
  <li>Bootless home and weather-beaten back.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Home without boots, and in foul weather too!</li>
  <li class="number">How 'scapes he agues, in the devil's name?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>Come, here's the map: shall we divide our right</li>
  <li>According to our threefold order ta'en?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MORTIMER</li>
  <li>The archdeacon hath divided it</li>
  <li>Into three limits very equally:</li>
  <li class="number">England, from Trent and Severn hitherto,</li>
  <li>By south and east is to my part assign'd:</li>
  <li>All westward, Wales beyond the Severn shore,</li>
  <li>And all the fertile land within that bound,</li>
  <li>To Owen Glendower: and, dear coz, to you</li>
  <li class="number">The remnant northward, lying off from Trent.</li>
  <li>And our indentures tripartite are drawn;</li>
  <li>Which being sealed interchangeably,</li>
  <li>A business that this night may execute,</li>
  <li>To-morrow, cousin Percy, you and I</li>
  <li class="number">And my good Lord of Worcester will set forth</li>
  <li>To meet your father and the Scottish power,</li>
  <li>As is appointed us, at Shrewsbury.</li>
  <li>My father Glendower is not ready yet,</li>
  <li>Not shall we need his help these fourteen days.</li>
  <li class="number">Within that space you may have drawn together</li>
  <li>Your tenants, friends and neighbouring gentlemen.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>A shorter time shall send me to you, lords:</li>
  <li>And in my conduct shall your ladies come;</li>
  <li>From whom you now must steal and take no leave,</li>
  <li class="number">For there will be a world of water shed</li>
  <li>Upon the parting of your wives and you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here,</li>
  <li>In quantity equals not one of yours:</li>
  <li>See how this river comes me cranking in,</li>
  <li class="number">And cuts me from the best of all my land</li>
  <li>A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.</li>
  <li>I'll have the current in this place damm'd up;</li>
  <li>And here the smug and silver Trent shall run</li>
  <li>In a new channel, fair and evenly;</li>
  <li class="number">It shall not wind with such a deep indent,</li>
  <li>To rob me of so rich a bottom here.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>Not wind? it shall, it must; you see it doth.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MORTIMER</li>
  <li>Yea, but</li>
  <li>Mark how he bears his course, and runs me up</li>
  <li class="number">With like advantage on the other side;</li>
  <li>Gelding the opposed continent as much</li>
  <li>As on the other side it takes from you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>Yea, but a little charge will trench him here</li>
  <li>And on this north side win this cape of land;</li>
  <li class="number">And then he runs straight and even.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>I'll have it so: a little charge will do it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>I'll not have it alter'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Will not you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>No, nor you shall not.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li class="number">Who shall say me nay?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>Why, that will I.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Let me not understand you, then; speak it in Welsh.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>I can speak English, lord, as well as you;</li>
  <li>For I was train'd up in the English court;</li>
  <li class="number">Where, being but young, I framed to the harp</li>
  <li>Many an English ditty lovely well</li>
  <li>And gave the tongue a helpful ornament,</li>
  <li>A virtue that was never seen in you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Marry,</li>
  <li class="number">And I am glad of it with all my heart:</li>
  <li>I had rather be a kitten and cry mew</li>
  <li>Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers;</li>
  <li>I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd,</li>
  <li>Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree;</li>
  <li class="number">And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,</li>
  <li>Nothing so much as mincing poetry:</li>
  <li>'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>Come, you shall have Trent turn'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>I do not care: I'll give thrice so much land</li>
  <li class="number">To any well-deserving friend;</li>
  <li>But in the way of bargain, mark ye me,</li>
  <li>I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.</li>
  <li>Are the indentures drawn? shall we be gone?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>The moon shines fair; you may away by night:</li>
  <li class="number">I'll haste the writer and withal</li>
  <li>Break with your wives of your departure hence:</li>
  <li>I am afraid my daughter will run mad,</li>
  <li>So much she doteth on her Mortimer.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit GLENDOWER</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MORTIMER</li>
  <li>Fie, cousin Percy! how you cross my father!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li class="number">I cannot choose: sometime he angers me</li>
  <li>With telling me of the mouldwarp and the ant,</li>
  <li>Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies,</li>
  <li>And of a dragon and a finless fish,</li>
  <li>A clip-wing'd griffin and a moulten raven,</li>
  <li class="number">A couching lion and a ramping cat,</li>
  <li>And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff</li>
  <li>As puts me from my faith. I tell you what;</li>
  <li>He held me last night at least nine hours</li>
  <li>In reckoning up the several devils' names</li>
  <li class="number">That were his lackeys: I cried 'hum,' and 'well, go to,'</li>
  <li>But mark'd him not a word. O, he is as tedious</li>
  <li>As a tired horse, a railing wife;</li>
  <li>Worse than a smoky house: I had rather live</li>
  <li>With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,</li>
  <li class="number">Than feed on cates and have him talk to me</li>
  <li>In any summer-house in Christendom.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MORTIMER</li>
  <li>In faith, he is a worthy gentleman,</li>
  <li>Exceedingly well read, and profited</li>
  <li>In strange concealments, valiant as a lion</li>
  <li class="number">And as wondrous affable and as bountiful</li>
  <li>As mines of India. Shall I tell you, cousin?</li>
  <li>He holds your temper in a high respect</li>
  <li>And curbs himself even of his natural scope</li>
  <li>When you come 'cross his humour; faith, he does:</li>
  <li class="number">I warrant you, that man is not alive</li>
  <li>Might so have tempted him as you have done,</li>
  <li>Without the taste of danger and reproof:</li>
  <li>But do not use it oft, let me entreat you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>In faith, my lord, you are too wilful-blame;</li>
  <li class="number">And since your coming hither have done enough</li>
  <li>To put him quite beside his patience.</li>
  <li>You must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault:</li>
  <li>Though sometimes it show greatness, courage, blood —  </li>
  <li>And that's the dearest grace it renders you —  </li>
  <li class="number">Yet oftentimes it doth present harsh rage,</li>
  <li>Defect of manners, want of government,</li>
  <li>Pride, haughtiness, opinion and disdain:</li>
  <li>The least of which haunting a nobleman</li>
  <li>Loseth men's hearts and leaves behind a stain</li>
  <li class="number">Upon the beauty of all parts besides,</li>
  <li>Beguiling them of commendation.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Well, I am school'd: good manners be your speed!</li>
  <li>Here come our wives, and let us take our leave.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter GLENDOWER with the ladies</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MORTIMER</li>
  <li>This is the deadly spite that angers me;</li>
  <li class="number">My wife can speak no English, I no Welsh.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>My daughter weeps: she will not part with you;</li>
  <li>She'll be a soldier too, she'll to the wars.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MORTIMER</li>
  <li>Good father, tell her that she and my aunt Percy</li>
  <li>Shall follow in your conduct speedily.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Glendower speaks to her in Welsh, and she
answers him in the same</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li class="number">She is desperate here; a peevish self-wind harlotry,</li>
  <li>one that no persuasion can do good upon.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">The lady speaks in Welsh</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MORTIMER</li>
  <li>I understand thy looks: that pretty Welsh</li>
  <li>Which thou pour'st down from these swelling heavens</li>
  <li>I am too perfect in; and, but for shame,</li>
  <li class="number">In such a parley should I answer thee.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">The lady speaks again in Welsh</li>
  <li>I understand thy kisses and thou mine,</li>
  <li>And that's a feeling disputation:</li>
  <li>But I will never be a truant, love,</li>
  <li>Till I have learned thy language; for thy tongue</li>
  <li class="number">Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,</li>
  <li>Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,</li>
  <li>With ravishing division, to her lute.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>Nay, if you melt, then will she run mad.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">The lady speaks again in Welsh</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MORTIMER</li>
  <li>O, I am ignorance itself in this!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li class="number">She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down</li>
  <li>And rest your gentle head upon her lap,</li>
  <li>And she will sing the song that pleaseth you</li>
  <li>And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep.</li>
  <li>Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness,</li>
  <li class="number">Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep</li>
  <li>As is the difference betwixt day and night</li>
  <li>The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team</li>
  <li>Begins his golden progress in the east.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MORTIMER</li>
  <li>With all my heart I'll sit and hear her sing:</li>
  <li class="number">By that time will our book, I think, be drawn</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li>Do so;</li>
  <li>And those musicians that shall play to you</li>
  <li>Hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence,</li>
  <li>And straight they shall be here: sit, and attend.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li class="number">Come, Kate, thou art perfect in lying down: come,</li>
  <li>quick, quick, that I may lay my head in thy lap.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LADY PERCY</li>
  <li>Go, ye giddy goose.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">The music plays</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh;</li>
  <li>And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.</li>
  <li class="number">By'r lady, he is a good musician.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LADY PERCY</li>
  <li>Then should you be nothing but musical for you are</li>
  <li>altogether governed by humours. Lie still, ye thief,</li>
  <li>and hear the lady sing in Welsh.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>I had rather hear Lady, my brach, howl in Irish.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LADY PERCY</li>
  <li class="number">Wouldst thou have thy head broken?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>No.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LADY PERCY</li>
  <li>Then be still.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Neither;'tis a woman's fault.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LADY PERCY</li>
  <li>Now God help thee!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li class="number">To the Welsh lady's bed.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LADY PERCY</li>
  <li>What's that?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Peace! she sings.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Here the lady sings a Welsh song</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Come, Kate, I'll have your song too.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LADY PERCY</li>
  <li>Not mine, in good sooth.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li class="number">Not yours, in good sooth! Heart! you swear like a</li>
  <li>comfit-maker's wife. 'Not you, in good sooth,' and</li>
  <li>'as true as I live,' and 'as God shall mend me,' and</li>
  <li>'as sure as day,'</li>
  <li>And givest such sarcenet surety for thy oaths,</li>
  <li class="number">As if thou never walk'st further than Finsbury.</li>
  <li>Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,</li>
  <li>A good mouth-filling oath, and leave 'in sooth,'</li>
  <li>And such protest of pepper-gingerbread,</li>
  <li>To velvet-guards and Sunday-citizens.</li>
  <li class="number">Come, sing.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LADY PERCY</li>
  <li>I will not sing.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>'Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be red-breast</li>
  <li>teacher. An the indentures be drawn, I'll away</li>
  <li>within these two hours; and so, come in when ye will.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLENDOWER</li>
  <li class="number">Come, come, Lord Mortimer; you are as slow</li>
  <li>As hot Lord Percy is on fire to go.</li>
  <li>By this our book is drawn; we'll but seal,</li>
  <li>And then to horse immediately.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MORTIMER</li>
  <li>With all my heart.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  London. The palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter KING HENRY IV, PRINCE HENRY, and others</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>Lords, give us leave; the Prince of Wales and I</li>
  <li>Must have some private conference; but be near at hand,</li>
  <li>For we shall presently have need of you.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exeunt Lords</li>
  <li>I know not whether God will have it so,</li>
  <li class="number">For some displeasing service I have done,</li>
  <li>That, in his secret doom, out of my blood</li>
  <li>He'll breed revengement and a scourge for me;</li>
  <li>But thou dost in thy passages of life</li>
  <li>Make me believe that thou art only mark'd</li>
  <li class="number">For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven</li>
  <li>To punish my mistreadings. Tell me else,</li>
  <li>Could such inordinate and low desires,</li>
  <li>Such poor, such bare, such lewd, such mean attempts,</li>
  <li>Such barren pleasures, rude society,</li>
  <li class="number">As thou art match'd withal and grafted to,</li>
  <li>Accompany the greatness of thy blood</li>
  <li>And hold their level with thy princely heart?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>So please your majesty, I would I could</li>
  <li>Quit all offences with as clear excuse</li>
  <li class="number">As well as I am doubtless I can purge</li>
  <li>Myself of many I am charged withal:</li>
  <li>Yet such extenuation let me beg,</li>
  <li>As, in reproof of many tales devised,</li>
  <li>which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear,</li>
  <li class="number">By smiling pick-thanks and base news-mongers,</li>
  <li>I may, for some things true, wherein my youth</li>
  <li>Hath faulty wander'd and irregular,</li>
  <li>Find pardon on my true submission.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>God pardon thee! yet let me wonder, Harry,</li>
  <li class="number">At thy affections, which do hold a wing</li>
  <li>Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors.</li>
  <li>Thy place in council thou hast rudely lost.</li>
  <li>Which by thy younger brother is supplied,</li>
  <li>And art almost an alien to the hearts</li>
  <li class="number">Of all the court and princes of my blood:</li>
  <li>The hope and expectation of thy time</li>
  <li>Is ruin'd, and the soul of every man</li>
  <li>Prophetically doth forethink thy fall.</li>
  <li>Had I so lavish of my presence been,</li>
  <li class="number">So common-hackney'd in the eyes of men,</li>
  <li>So stale and cheap to vulgar company,</li>
  <li>Opinion, that did help me to the crown,</li>
  <li>Had still kept loyal to possession</li>
  <li>And left me in reputeless banishment,</li>
  <li class="number">A fellow of no mark nor likelihood.</li>
  <li>By being seldom seen, I could not stir</li>
  <li>But like a comet I was wonder'd at;</li>
  <li>That men would tell their children 'This is he;'</li>
  <li>Others would say 'Where, which is Bolingbroke?'</li>
  <li class="number">And then I stole all courtesy from heaven,</li>
  <li>And dress'd myself in such humility</li>
  <li>That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts,</li>
  <li>Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths,</li>
  <li>Even in the presence of the crowned king.</li>
  <li class="number">Thus did I keep my person fresh and new;</li>
  <li>My presence, like a robe pontifical,</li>
  <li>Ne'er seen but wonder'd at: and so my state,</li>
  <li>Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast</li>
  <li>And won by rareness such solemnity.</li>
  <li class="number">The skipping king, he ambled up and down</li>
  <li>With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits,</li>
  <li>Soon kindled and soon burnt; carded his state,</li>
  <li>Mingled his royalty with capering fools,</li>
  <li>Had his great name profaned with their scorns</li>
  <li class="number">And gave his countenance, against his name,</li>
  <li>To laugh at gibing boys and stand the push</li>
  <li>Of every beardless vain comparative,</li>
  <li>Grew a companion to the common streets,</li>
  <li>Enfeoff'd himself to popularity;</li>
  <li class="number">That, being daily swallow'd by men's eyes,</li>
  <li>They surfeited with honey and began</li>
  <li>To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little</li>
  <li>More than a little is by much too much.</li>
  <li>So when he had occasion to be seen,</li>
  <li class="number">He was but as the cuckoo is in June,</li>
  <li>Heard, not regarded; seen, but with such eyes</li>
  <li>As, sick and blunted with community,</li>
  <li>Afford no extraordinary gaze,</li>
  <li>Such as is bent on sun-like majesty</li>
  <li class="number">When it shines seldom in admiring eyes;</li>
  <li>But rather drowzed and hung their eyelids down,</li>
  <li>Slept in his face and render'd such aspect</li>
  <li>As cloudy men use to their adversaries,</li>
  <li>Being with his presence glutted, gorged and full.</li>
  <li class="number">And in that very line, Harry, standest thou;</li>
  <li>For thou has lost thy princely privilege</li>
  <li>With vile participation: not an eye</li>
  <li>But is a-weary of thy common sight,</li>
  <li>Save mine, which hath desired to see thee more;</li>
  <li class="number">Which now doth that I would not have it do,</li>
  <li>Make blind itself with foolish tenderness.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>I shall hereafter, my thrice gracious lord,</li>
  <li>Be more myself.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>For all the world</li>
  <li class="number">As thou art to this hour was Richard then</li>
  <li>When I from France set foot at Ravenspurgh,</li>
  <li>And even as I was then is Percy now.</li>
  <li>Now, by my sceptre and my soul to boot,</li>
  <li>He hath more worthy interest to the state</li>
  <li class="number">Than thou the shadow of succession;</li>
  <li>For of no right, nor colour like to right,</li>
  <li>He doth fill fields with harness in the realm,</li>
  <li>Turns head against the lion's armed jaws,</li>
  <li>And, being no more in debt to years than thou,</li>
  <li class="number">Leads ancient lords and reverend bishops on</li>
  <li>To bloody battles and to bruising arms.</li>
  <li>What never-dying honour hath he got</li>
  <li>Against renowned Douglas! whose high deeds,</li>
  <li>Whose hot incursions and great name in arms</li>
  <li class="number">Holds from all soldiers chief majority</li>
  <li>And military title capital</li>
  <li>Through all the kingdoms that acknowledge Christ:</li>
  <li>Thrice hath this Hotspur, Mars in swathling clothes,</li>
  <li>This infant warrior, in his enterprises</li>
  <li class="number">Discomfited great Douglas, ta'en him once,</li>
  <li>Enlarged him and made a friend of him,</li>
  <li>To fill the mouth of deep defiance up</li>
  <li>And shake the peace and safety of our throne.</li>
  <li>And what say you to this? Percy, Northumberland,</li>
  <li class="number">The Archbishop's grace of York, Douglas, Mortimer,</li>
  <li>Capitulate against us and are up.</li>
  <li>But wherefore do I tell these news to thee?</li>
  <li>Why, Harry, do I tell thee of my foes,</li>
  <li>Which art my near'st and dearest enemy?</li>
  <li class="number">Thou that art like enough, through vassal fear,</li>
  <li>Base inclination and the start of spleen</li>
  <li>To fight against me under Percy's pay,</li>
  <li>To dog his heels and curtsy at his frowns,</li>
  <li>To show how much thou art degenerate.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Do not think so; you shall not find it so:</li>
  <li>And God forgive them that so much have sway'd</li>
  <li>Your majesty's good thoughts away from me!</li>
  <li>I will redeem all this on Percy's head</li>
  <li>And in the closing of some glorious day</li>
  <li class="number">Be bold to tell you that I am your son;</li>
  <li>When I will wear a garment all of blood</li>
  <li>And stain my favours in a bloody mask,</li>
  <li>Which, wash'd away, shall scour my shame with it:</li>
  <li>And that shall be the day, whene'er it lights,</li>
  <li class="number">That this same child of honour and renown,</li>
  <li>This gallant Hotspur, this all-praised knight,</li>
  <li>And your unthought-of Harry chance to meet.</li>
  <li>For every honour sitting on his helm,</li>
  <li>Would they were multitudes, and on my head</li>
  <li class="number">My shames redoubled! for the time will come,</li>
  <li>That I shall make this northern youth exchange</li>
  <li>His glorious deeds for my indignities.</li>
  <li>Percy is but my factor, good my lord,</li>
  <li>To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf;</li>
  <li class="number">And I will call him to so strict account,</li>
  <li>That he shall render every glory up,</li>
  <li>Yea, even the slightest worship of his time,</li>
  <li>Or I will tear the reckoning from his heart.</li>
  <li>This, in the name of God, I promise here:</li>
  <li class="number">The which if He be pleased I shall perform,</li>
  <li>I do beseech your majesty may salve</li>
  <li>The long-grown wounds of my intemperance:</li>
  <li>If not, the end of life cancels all bands;</li>
  <li>And I will die a hundred thousand deaths</li>
  <li class="number">Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>A hundred thousand rebels die in this:</li>
  <li>Thou shalt have charge and sovereign trust herein.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter BLUNT</li>
  <li>How now, good Blunt? thy looks are full of speed.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SIR WALTER BLUNT</li>
  <li>So hath the business that I come to speak of.</li>
  <li class="number">Lord Mortimer of Scotland hath sent word</li>
  <li>That Douglas and the English rebels met</li>
  <li>The eleventh of this month at Shrewsbury</li>
  <li>A mighty and a fearful head they are,</li>
  <li>If promises be kept on every hand,</li>
  <li class="number">As ever offer'd foul play in the state.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>The Earl of Westmoreland set forth to-day;</li>
  <li>With him my son, Lord John of Lancaster;</li>
  <li>For this advertisement is five days old:</li>
  <li>On Wednesday next, Harry, you shall set forward;</li>
  <li class="number">On Thursday we ourselves will march: our meeting</li>
  <li>Is Bridgenorth: and, Harry, you shall march</li>
  <li>Through Gloucestershire; by which account,</li>
  <li>Our business valued, some twelve days hence</li>
  <li>Our general forces at Bridgenorth shall meet.</li>
  <li class="number">Our hands are full of business: let's away;</li>
  <li>Advantage feeds him fat, while men delay.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely since this last</li>
  <li>action? do I not bate? do I not dwindle? Why my</li>
  <li>skin hangs about me like an like an old lady's loose</li>
  <li>gown; I am withered like an old apple-john. Well,</li>
  <li class="number">I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some</li>
  <li>liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I</li>
  <li>shall have no strength to repent. An I have not</li>
  <li>forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I</li>
  <li>am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse: the inside of a</li>
  <li class="number">church! Company, villanous company, hath been the</li>
  <li>spoil of me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>Sir John, you are so fretful, you cannot live long.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Why, there is it: come sing me a bawdy song; make</li>
  <li>me merry. I was as virtuously given as a gentleman</li>
  <li class="number">need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not</li>
  <li>above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once</li>
  <li>in a quarter — of an hour; paid money that I</li>
  <li>borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in</li>
  <li>good compass: and now I live out of all order, out</li>
  <li class="number">of all compass.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>Why, you are so fat, Sir John, that you must needs</li>
  <li>be out of all compass, out of all reasonable</li>
  <li>compass, Sir John.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life:</li>
  <li class="number">thou art our admiral, thou bearest the lantern in</li>
  <li>the poop, but 'tis in the nose of thee; thou art the</li>
  <li>Knight of the Burning Lamp.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>Why, Sir John, my face does you no harm.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>No, I'll be sworn; I make as good use of it as many</li>
  <li class="number">a man doth of a Death's-head or a memento mori: I</li>
  <li>never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire and</li>
  <li>Dives that lived in purple; for there he is in his</li>
  <li>robes, burning, burning. If thou wert any way</li>
  <li>given to virtue, I would swear by thy face; my oath</li>
  <li class="number">should be 'By this fire, that's God's angel:' but</li>
  <li>thou art altogether given over; and wert indeed, but</li>
  <li>for the light in thy face, the son of utter</li>
  <li>darkness. When thou rannest up Gadshill in the</li>
  <li>night to catch my horse, if I did not think thou</li>
  <li class="number">hadst been an ignis fatuus or a ball of wildfire,</li>
  <li>there's no purchase in money. O, thou art a</li>
  <li>perpetual triumph, an everlasting bonfire-light!</li>
  <li>Thou hast saved me a thousand marks in links and</li>
  <li>torches, walking with thee in the night betwixt</li>
  <li class="number">tavern and tavern: but the sack that thou hast</li>
  <li>drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap</li>
  <li>at the dearest chandler's in Europe. I have</li>
  <li>maintained that salamander of yours with fire any</li>
  <li>time this two and thirty years; God reward me for</li>
  <li class="number">it!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>'Sblood, I would my face were in your belly!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>God-a-mercy! so should I be sure to be heart-burned.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter Hostess</li>
  <li>How now, Dame Partlet the hen! have you inquired</li>
  <li>yet who picked my pocket?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li class="number">Why, Sir John, what do you think, Sir John? do you</li>
  <li>think I keep thieves in my house? I have searched,</li>
  <li>I have inquired, so has my husband, man by man, boy</li>
  <li>by boy, servant by servant: the tithe of a hair</li>
  <li>was never lost in my house before.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">Ye lie, hostess: Bardolph was shaved and lost many</li>
  <li>a hair; and I'll be sworn my pocket was picked. Go</li>
  <li>to, you are a woman, go.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>Who, I? no; I defy thee: God's light, I was never</li>
  <li>called so in mine own house before.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">Go to, I know you well enough.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>No, Sir John; You do not know me, Sir John. I know</li>
  <li>you, Sir John: you owe me money, Sir John; and now</li>
  <li>you pick a quarrel to beguile me of it: I bought</li>
  <li>you a dozen of shirts to your back.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">Dowlas, filthy dowlas: I have given them away to</li>
  <li>bakers' wives, and they have made bolters of them.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>Now, as I am a true woman, holland of eight</li>
  <li>shillings an ell. You owe money here besides, Sir</li>
  <li>John, for your diet and by-drinkings, and money lent</li>
  <li class="number">you, four and twenty pound.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>He had his part of it; let him pay.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>He? alas, he is poor; he hath nothing.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>How! poor? look upon his face; what call you rich?</li>
  <li>let them coin his nose, let them coin his cheeks:</li>
  <li class="number">Ill not pay a denier. What, will you make a younker</li>
  <li>of me? shall I not take mine case in mine inn but I</li>
  <li>shall have my pocket picked? I have lost a</li>
  <li>seal-ring of my grandfather's worth forty mark.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>O Jesu, I have heard the prince tell him, I know not</li>
  <li class="number">how oft, that ring was copper!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>How! the prince is a Jack, a sneak-cup: 'sblood, an</li>
  <li>he were here, I would cudgel him like a dog, if he</li>
  <li>would say so.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter PRINCE HENRY and PETO, marching, and FALSTAFF
meets them playing on his truncheon like a life</li>
  <li>How now, lad! is the wind in that door, i' faith?</li>
  <li class="number">must we all march?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>Yea, two and two, Newgate fashion.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>My lord, I pray you, hear me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>What sayest thou, Mistress Quickly? How doth thy</li>
  <li>husband? I love him well; he is an honest man.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li class="number">Good my lord, hear me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Prithee, let her alone, and list to me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>What sayest thou, Jack?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>The other night I fell asleep here behind the arras</li>
  <li>and had my pocket picked: this house is turned</li>
  <li class="number">bawdy-house; they pick pockets.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>What didst thou lose, Jack?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Wilt thou believe me, Hal? three or four bonds of</li>
  <li>forty pound apiece, and a seal-ring of my</li>
  <li>grandfather's.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">A trifle, some eight-penny matter.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>So I told him, my lord; and I said I heard your</li>
  <li>grace say so: and, my lord, he speaks most vilely</li>
  <li>of you, like a foul-mouthed man as he is; and said</li>
  <li>he would cudgel you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">What! he did not?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>There's neither faith, truth, nor womanhood in me else.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed</li>
  <li>prune; nor no more truth in thee than in a drawn</li>
  <li>fox; and for womanhood, Maid Marian may be the</li>
  <li class="number">deputy's wife of the ward to thee. Go, you thing,</li>
  <li>go</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>Say, what thing? what thing?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>What thing! why, a thing to thank God on.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>I am no thing to thank God on, I would thou</li>
  <li class="number">shouldst know it; I am an honest man's wife: and,</li>
  <li>setting thy knighthood aside, thou art a knave to</li>
  <li>call me so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Setting thy womanhood aside, thou art a beast to say</li>
  <li>otherwise.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li class="number">Say, what beast, thou knave, thou?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>What beast! why, an otter.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>An otter, Sir John! Why an otter?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Why, she's neither fish nor flesh; a man knows not</li>
  <li>where to have her.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li class="number">Thou art an unjust man in saying so: thou or any</li>
  <li>man knows where to have me, thou knave, thou!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Thou sayest true, hostess; and he slanders thee most grossly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>So he doth you, my lord; and said this other day you</li>
  <li>ought him a thousand pound.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Sirrah, do I owe you a thousand pound?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>A thousand pound, Ha! a million: thy love is worth</li>
  <li>a million: thou owest me thy love.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>Nay, my lord, he called you Jack, and said he would</li>
  <li>cudgel you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">Did I, Bardolph?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>Indeed, Sir John, you said so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Yea, if he said my ring was copper.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>I say 'tis copper: darest thou be as good as thy word now?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Why, Hal, thou knowest, as thou art but man, I dare:</li>
  <li class="number">but as thou art prince, I fear thee as I fear the</li>
  <li>roaring of a lion's whelp.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>And why not as the lion?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>The king is to be feared as the lion: dost thou</li>
  <li>think I'll fear thee as I fear thy father? nay, an</li>
  <li class="number">I do, I pray God my girdle break.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>O, if it should, how would thy guts fall about thy</li>
  <li>knees! But, sirrah, there's no room for faith,</li>
  <li>truth, nor honesty in this bosom of thine; it is all</li>
  <li>filled up with guts and midriff. Charge an honest</li>
  <li class="number">woman with picking thy pocket! why, thou whoreson,</li>
  <li>impudent, embossed rascal, if there were anything in</li>
  <li>thy pocket but tavern-reckonings, memorandums of</li>
  <li>bawdy-houses, and one poor penny-worth of</li>
  <li>sugar-candy to make thee long-winded, if thy pocket</li>
  <li class="number">were enriched with any other injuries but these, I</li>
  <li>am a villain: and yet you will stand to if; you will</li>
  <li>not pocket up wrong: art thou not ashamed?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Dost thou hear, Hal? thou knowest in the state of</li>
  <li>innocency Adam fell; and what should poor Jack</li>
  <li class="number">Falstaff do in the days of villany? Thou seest I</li>
  <li>have more flesh than another man, and therefore more</li>
  <li>frailty. You confess then, you picked my pocket?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>It appears so by the story.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Hostess, I forgive thee: go, make ready breakfast;</li>
  <li class="number">love thy husband, look to thy servants, cherish thy</li>
  <li>guests: thou shalt find me tractable to any honest</li>
  <li>reason: thou seest I am pacified still. Nay,</li>
  <li>prithee, be gone.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit Hostess</li>
  <li>Now Hal, to the news at court: for the robbery,</li>
  <li class="number">lad, how is that answered?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>O, my sweet beef, I must still be good angel to</li>
  <li>thee: the money is paid back again.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>O, I do not like that paying back; 'tis a double labour.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>I am good friends with my father and may do any thing.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">Rob me the exchequer the first thing thou doest, and</li>
  <li>do it with unwashed hands too.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>Do, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>I have procured thee, Jack, a charge of foot.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>I would it had been of horse. Where shall I find</li>
  <li class="number">one that can steal well? O for a fine thief, of the</li>
  <li>age of two and twenty or thereabouts! I am</li>
  <li>heinously unprovided. Well, God be thanked for</li>
  <li>these rebels, they offend none but the virtuous: I</li>
  <li>laud them, I praise them.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Bardolph!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>My lord?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Go bear this letter to Lord John of Lancaster, to my</li>
  <li>brother John; this to my Lord of Westmoreland.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit Bardolph</li>
  <li>Go, Peto, to horse, to horse; for thou and I have</li>
  <li class="number">thirty miles to ride yet ere dinner time.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit Peto</li>
  <li>Jack, meet me to-morrow in the temple hall at two</li>
  <li>o'clock in the afternoon.</li>
  <li>There shalt thou know thy charge; and there receive</li>
  <li>Money and order for their furniture.</li>
  <li class="number">The land is burning; Percy stands on high;</li>
  <li>And either we or they must lower lie.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit PRINCE HENRY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Rare words! brave world! Hostess, my breakfast, come!</li>
  <li>O, I could wish this tavern were my drum!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT IV</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  The rebel camp near Shrewsbury.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, and DOUGLAS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Well said, my noble Scot: if speaking truth</li>
  <li>In this fine age were not thought flattery,</li>
  <li>Such attribution should the Douglas have,</li>
  <li>As not a soldier of this season's stamp</li>
  <li class="number">Should go so general current through the world.</li>
  <li>By God, I cannot flatter; I do defy</li>
  <li>The tongues of soothers; but a braver place</li>
  <li>In my heart's love hath no man than yourself:</li>
  <li>Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF DOUGLAS</li>
  <li class="number">Thou art the king of honour:</li>
  <li>No man so potent breathes upon the ground</li>
  <li>But I will beard him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Do so, and 'tis well.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter a Messenger with letters</li>
  <li>What letters hast thou there? — I can but thank you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li class="number">These letters come from your father.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Letters from him! why comes he not himself?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>He cannot come, my lord; he is grievous sick.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>'Zounds! how has he the leisure to be sick</li>
  <li>In such a rustling time? Who leads his power?</li>
  <li class="number">Under whose government come they along?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>His letters bear his mind, not I, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>I prithee, tell me, doth he keep his bed?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>He did, my lord, four days ere I set forth;</li>
  <li>And at the time of my departure thence</li>
  <li class="number">He was much fear'd by his physicians.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>I would the state of time had first been whole</li>
  <li>Ere he by sickness had been visited:</li>
  <li>His health was never better worth than now.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Sick now! droop now! this sickness doth infect</li>
  <li class="number">The very life-blood of our enterprise;</li>
  <li>'Tis catching hither, even to our camp.</li>
  <li>He writes me here, that inward sickness — </li>
  <li>And that his friends by deputation could not</li>
  <li>So soon be drawn, nor did he think it meet</li>
  <li class="number">To lay so dangerous and dear a trust</li>
  <li>On any soul removed but on his own.</li>
  <li>Yet doth he give us bold advertisement,</li>
  <li>That with our small conjunction we should on,</li>
  <li>To see how fortune is disposed to us;</li>
  <li class="number">For, as he writes, there is no quailing now.</li>
  <li>Because the king is certainly possess'd</li>
  <li>Of all our purposes. What say you to it?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>Your father's sickness is a maim to us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>A perilous gash, a very limb lopp'd off:</li>
  <li class="number">And yet, in faith, it is not; his present want</li>
  <li>Seems more than we shall find it: were it good</li>
  <li>To set the exact wealth of all our states</li>
  <li>All at one cast? to set so rich a main</li>
  <li>On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?</li>
  <li class="number">It were not good; for therein should we read</li>
  <li>The very bottom and the soul of hope,</li>
  <li>The very list, the very utmost bound</li>
  <li>Of all our fortunes.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF DOUGLAS</li>
  <li>'Faith, and so we should;</li>
  <li class="number">Where now remains a sweet reversion:</li>
  <li>We may boldly spend upon the hope of what</li>
  <li>Is to come in:</li>
  <li>A comfort of retirement lives in this.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>A rendezvous, a home to fly unto.</li>
  <li class="number">If that the devil and mischance look big</li>
  <li>Upon the maidenhead of our affairs.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>But yet I would your father had been here.</li>
  <li>The quality and hair of our attempt</li>
  <li>Brooks no division: it will be thought</li>
  <li class="number">By some, that know not why he is away,</li>
  <li>That wisdom, loyalty and mere dislike</li>
  <li>Of our proceedings kept the earl from hence:</li>
  <li>And think how such an apprehension</li>
  <li>May turn the tide of fearful faction</li>
  <li class="number">And breed a kind of question in our cause;</li>
  <li>For well you know we of the offering side</li>
  <li>Must keep aloof from strict arbitrement,</li>
  <li>And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence</li>
  <li>The eye of reason may pry in upon us:</li>
  <li class="number">This absence of your father's draws a curtain,</li>
  <li>That shows the ignorant a kind of fear</li>
  <li>Before not dreamt of.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>You strain too far.</li>
  <li>I rather of his absence make this use:</li>
  <li class="number">It lends a lustre and more great opinion,</li>
  <li>A larger dare to our great enterprise,</li>
  <li>Than if the earl were here; for men must think,</li>
  <li>If we without his help can make a head</li>
  <li>To push against a kingdom, with his help</li>
  <li class="number">We shall o'erturn it topsy-turvy down.</li>
  <li>Yet all goes well, yet all our joints are whole.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF DOUGLAS</li>
  <li>As heart can think: there is not such a word</li>
  <li>Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter SIR RICHARD VERNON</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>My cousin Vernon, welcome, by my soul.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VERNON</li>
  <li class="number">Pray God my news be worth a welcome, lord.</li>
  <li>The Earl of Westmoreland, seven thousand strong,</li>
  <li>Is marching hitherwards; with him Prince John.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>No harm: what more?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VERNON</li>
  <li>And further, I have learn'd,</li>
  <li class="number">The king himself in person is set forth,</li>
  <li>Or hitherwards intended speedily,</li>
  <li>With strong and mighty preparation.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>He shall be welcome too. Where is his son,</li>
  <li>The nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales,</li>
  <li class="number">And his comrades, that daff'd the world aside,</li>
  <li>And bid it pass?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VERNON</li>
  <li>All furnish'd, all in arms;</li>
  <li>All plumed like estridges that with the wind</li>
  <li>Baited like eagles having lately bathed;</li>
  <li class="number">Glittering in golden coats, like images;</li>
  <li>As full of spirit as the month of May,</li>
  <li>And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;</li>
  <li>Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.</li>
  <li>I saw young Harry, with his beaver on,</li>
  <li class="number">His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd</li>
  <li>Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury,</li>
  <li>And vaulted with such ease into his seat,</li>
  <li>As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds,</li>
  <li>To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus</li>
  <li class="number">And witch the world with noble horsemanship.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>No more, no more: worse than the sun in March,</li>
  <li>This praise doth nourish agues. Let them come:</li>
  <li>They come like sacrifices in their trim,</li>
  <li>And to the fire-eyed maid of smoky war</li>
  <li class="number">All hot and bleeding will we offer them:</li>
  <li>The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit</li>
  <li>Up to the ears in blood. I am on fire</li>
  <li>To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh</li>
  <li>And yet not ours. Come, let me taste my horse,</li>
  <li class="number">Who is to bear me like a thunderbolt</li>
  <li>Against the bosom of the Prince of Wales:</li>
  <li>Harry to Harry shall, hot horse to horse,</li>
  <li>Meet and ne'er part till one drop down a corse.</li>
  <li>O that Glendower were come!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VERNON</li>
  <li class="number">There is more news:</li>
  <li>I learn'd in Worcester, as I rode along,</li>
  <li>He cannot draw his power this fourteen days.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF DOUGLAS</li>
  <li>That's the worst tidings that I hear of yet.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WORCESTER</li>
  <li>Ay, by my faith, that bears a frosty sound.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li class="number">What may the king's whole battle reach unto?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VERNON</li>
  <li>To thirty thousand.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Forty let it be:</li>
  <li>My father and Glendower being both away,</li>
  <li>The powers of us may serve so great a day</li>
  <li class="number">Come, let us take a muster speedily:</li>
  <li>Doomsday is near; die all, die merrily.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF DOUGLAS</li>
  <li>Talk not of dying: I am out of fear</li>
  <li>Of death or death's hand for this one-half year.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  A public road near Coventry.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Bardolph, get thee before to Coventry; fill me a</li>
  <li>bottle of sack: our soldiers shall march through;</li>
  <li>we'll to Sutton Co'fil' tonight.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>Will you give me money, captain?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">Lay out, lay out.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>This bottle makes an angel.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>An if it do, take it for thy labour; and if it make</li>
  <li>twenty, take them all; I'll answer the coinage. Bid</li>
  <li>my lieutenant Peto meet me at town's end.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li class="number">I will, captain: farewell.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused</li>
  <li>gurnet. I have misused the king's press damnably.</li>
  <li>I have got, in exchange of a hundred and fifty</li>
  <li>soldiers, three hundred and odd pounds. I press me</li>
  <li class="number">none but good house-holders, yeoman's sons; inquire</li>
  <li>me out contracted bachelors, such as had been asked</li>
  <li>twice on the banns; such a commodity of warm slaves,</li>
  <li>as had as lieve hear the devil as a drum; such as</li>
  <li>fear the report of a caliver worse than a struck</li>
  <li class="number">fowl or a hurt wild-duck. I pressed me none but such</li>
  <li>toasts-and-butter, with hearts in their bellies no</li>
  <li>bigger than pins' heads, and they have bought out</li>
  <li>their services; and now my whole charge consists of</li>
  <li>ancients, corporals, lieutenants, gentlemen of</li>
  <li class="number">companies, slaves as ragged as Lazarus in the</li>
  <li>painted cloth, where the glutton's dogs licked his</li>
  <li>sores; and such as indeed were never soldiers, but</li>
  <li>discarded unjust serving-men, younger sons to</li>
  <li>younger brothers, revolted tapsters and ostlers</li>
  <li class="number">trade-fallen, the cankers of a calm world and a</li>
  <li>long peace, ten times more dishonourable ragged than</li>
  <li>an old faced ancient: and such have I, to fill up</li>
  <li>the rooms of them that have bought out their</li>
  <li>services, that you would think that I had a hundred</li>
  <li class="number">and fifty tattered prodigals lately come from</li>
  <li>swine-keeping, from eating draff and husks. A mad</li>
  <li>fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded</li>
  <li>all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies. No eye</li>
  <li>hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march through</li>
  <li class="number">Coventry with them, that's flat: nay, and the</li>
  <li>villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had</li>
  <li>gyves on; for indeed I had the most of them out of</li>
  <li>prison. There's but a shirt and a half in all my</li>
  <li>company; and the half shirt is two napkins tacked</li>
  <li class="number">together and thrown over the shoulders like an</li>
  <li>herald's coat without sleeves; and the shirt, to say</li>
  <li>the truth, stolen from my host at Saint Alban's, or</li>
  <li>the red-nose innkeeper of Daventry. But that's all</li>
  <li>one; they'll find linen enough on every hedge.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter the PRINCE and WESTMORELAND</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">How now, blown Jack! how now, quilt!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>What, Hal! how now, mad wag! what a devil dost thou</li>
  <li>in Warwickshire? My good Lord of Westmoreland, I</li>
  <li>cry you mercy: I thought your honour had already been</li>
  <li>at Shrewsbury.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li class="number">Faith, Sir John,'tis more than time that I were</li>
  <li>there, and you too; but my powers are there already.</li>
  <li>The king, I can tell you, looks for us all: we must</li>
  <li>away all night.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Tut, never fear me: I am as vigilant as a cat to</li>
  <li class="number">steal cream.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>I think, to steal cream indeed, for thy theft hath</li>
  <li>already made thee butter. But tell me, Jack, whose</li>
  <li>fellows are these that come after?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Mine, Hal, mine.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">I did never see such pitiful rascals.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Tut, tut; good enough to toss; food for powder, food</li>
  <li>for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better:</li>
  <li>tush, man, mortal men, mortal men.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li>Ay, but, Sir John, methinks they are exceeding poor</li>
  <li class="number">and bare, too beggarly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>'Faith, for their poverty, I know not where they had</li>
  <li>that; and for their bareness, I am sure they never</li>
  <li>learned that of me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>No I'll be sworn; unless you call three fingers on</li>
  <li class="number">the ribs bare. But, sirrah, make haste: Percy is</li>
  <li>already in the field.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>What, is the king encamped?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li>He is, Sir John: I fear we shall stay too long.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Well,</li>
  <li class="number">To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast</li>
  <li>Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  The rebel camp near Shrewsbury.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, DOUGLAS, and VERNON</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>We'll fight with him to-night.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>It may not be.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF DOUGLAS</li>
  <li>You give him then the advantage.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VERNON</li>
  <li>Not a whit.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li class="number">Why say you so? looks he not for supply?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VERNON</li>
  <li>So do we.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>His is certain, ours is doubtful.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>Good cousin, be advised; stir not tonight.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VERNON</li>
  <li>Do not, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF DOUGLAS</li>
  <li class="number">You do not counsel well:</li>
  <li>You speak it out of fear and cold heart.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VERNON</li>
  <li>Do me no slander, Douglas: by my life,</li>
  <li>And I dare well maintain it with my life,</li>
  <li>If well-respected honour bid me on,</li>
  <li class="number">I hold as little counsel with weak fear</li>
  <li>As you, my lord, or any Scot that this day lives:</li>
  <li>Let it be seen to-morrow in the battle</li>
  <li>Which of us fears.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF DOUGLAS</li>
  <li>Yea, or to-night.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VERNON</li>
  <li class="number">Content.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>To-night, say I.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VERNON</li>
  <li>Come, come it nay not be. I wonder much,</li>
  <li>Being men of such great leading as you are,</li>
  <li>That you foresee not what impediments</li>
  <li class="number">Drag back our expedition: certain horse</li>
  <li>Of my cousin Vernon's are not yet come up:</li>
  <li>Your uncle Worcester's horse came but today;</li>
  <li>And now their pride and mettle is asleep,</li>
  <li>Their courage with hard labour tame and dull,</li>
  <li class="number">That not a horse is half the half of himself.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>So are the horses of the enemy</li>
  <li>In general, journey-bated and brought low:</li>
  <li>The better part of ours are full of rest.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>The number of the king exceedeth ours:</li>
  <li class="number">For God's sake. cousin, stay till all come in.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">The trumpet sounds a parley</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter SIR WALTER BLUNT</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SIR WALTER BLUNT</li>
  <li>I come with gracious offers from the king,</li>
  <li>if you vouchsafe me hearing and respect.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Welcome, Sir Walter Blunt; and would to God</li>
  <li>You were of our determination!</li>
  <li class="number">Some of us love you well; and even those some</li>
  <li>Envy your great deservings and good name,</li>
  <li>Because you are not of our quality,</li>
  <li>But stand against us like an enemy.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SIR WALTER BLUNT</li>
  <li>And God defend but still I should stand so,</li>
  <li class="number">So long as out of limit and true rule</li>
  <li>You stand against anointed majesty.</li>
  <li>But to my charge. The king hath sent to know</li>
  <li>The nature of your griefs, and whereupon</li>
  <li>You conjure from the breast of civil peace</li>
  <li class="number">Such bold hostility, teaching his duteous land</li>
  <li>Audacious cruelty. If that the king</li>
  <li>Have any way your good deserts forgot,</li>
  <li>Which he confesseth to be manifold,</li>
  <li>He bids you name your griefs; and with all speed</li>
  <li class="number">You shall have your desires with interest</li>
  <li>And pardon absolute for yourself and these</li>
  <li>Herein misled by your suggestion.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>The king is kind; and well we know the king</li>
  <li>Knows at what time to promise, when to pay.</li>
  <li class="number">My father and my uncle and myself</li>
  <li>Did give him that same royalty he wears;</li>
  <li>And when he was not six and twenty strong,</li>
  <li>Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low,</li>
  <li>A poor unminded outlaw sneaking home,</li>
  <li class="number">My father gave him welcome to the shore;</li>
  <li>And when he heard him swear and vow to God</li>
  <li>He came but to be Duke of Lancaster,</li>
  <li>To sue his livery and beg his peace,</li>
  <li>With tears of innocency and terms of zeal,</li>
  <li class="number">My father, in kind heart and pity moved,</li>
  <li>Swore him assistance and perform'd it too.</li>
  <li>Now when the lords and barons of the realm</li>
  <li>Perceived Northumberland did lean to him,</li>
  <li>The more and less came in with cap and knee;</li>
  <li class="number">Met him in boroughs, cities, villages,</li>
  <li>Attended him on bridges, stood in lanes,</li>
  <li>Laid gifts before him, proffer'd him their oaths,</li>
  <li>Gave him their heirs, as pages follow'd him</li>
  <li>Even at the heels in golden multitudes.</li>
  <li class="number">He presently, as greatness knows itself,</li>
  <li>Steps me a little higher than his vow</li>
  <li>Made to my father, while his blood was poor,</li>
  <li>Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurgh;</li>
  <li>And now, forsooth, takes on him to reform</li>
  <li class="number">Some certain edicts and some strait decrees</li>
  <li>That lie too heavy on the commonwealth,</li>
  <li>Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep</li>
  <li>Over his country's wrongs; and by this face,</li>
  <li>This seeming brow of justice, did he win</li>
  <li class="number">The hearts of all that he did angle for;</li>
  <li>Proceeded further; cut me off the heads</li>
  <li>Of all the favourites that the absent king</li>
  <li>In deputation left behind him here,</li>
  <li>When he was personal in the Irish war.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SIR WALTER BLUNT</li>
  <li class="number">Tut, I came not to hear this.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Then to the point.</li>
  <li>In short time after, he deposed the king;</li>
  <li>Soon after that, deprived him of his life;</li>
  <li>And in the neck of that, task'd the whole state:</li>
  <li class="number">To make that worse, suffer'd his kinsman March,</li>
  <li>Who is, if every owner were well placed,</li>
  <li>Indeed his king, to be engaged in Wales,</li>
  <li>There without ransom to lie forfeited;</li>
  <li>Disgraced me in my happy victories,</li>
  <li class="number">Sought to entrap me by intelligence;</li>
  <li>Rated mine uncle from the council-board;</li>
  <li>In rage dismiss'd my father from the court;</li>
  <li>Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong,</li>
  <li>And in conclusion drove us to seek out</li>
  <li class="number">This head of safety; and withal to pry</li>
  <li>Into his title, the which we find</li>
  <li>Too indirect for long continuance.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SIR WALTER BLUNT</li>
  <li>Shall I return this answer to the king?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Not so, Sir Walter: we'll withdraw awhile.</li>
  <li class="number">Go to the king; and let there be impawn'd</li>
  <li>Some surety for a safe return again,</li>
  <li>And in the morning early shall my uncle</li>
  <li>Bring him our purposes: and so farewell.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SIR WALTER BLUNT</li>
  <li>I would you would accept of grace and love.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li class="number">And may be so we shall.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SIR WALTER BLUNT</li>
  <li>Pray God you do.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE IV.  York. The ARCHBISHOP'S palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK and SIR MICHAEL</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</li>
  <li>Hie, good Sir Michael; bear this sealed brief</li>
  <li>With winged haste to the lord marshal;</li>
  <li>This to my cousin Scroop, and all the rest</li>
  <li>To whom they are directed. If you knew</li>
  <li class="number">How much they do to import, you would make haste.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SIR MICHAEL</li>
  <li>My good lord,</li>
  <li>I guess their tenor.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</li>
  <li>Like enough you do.</li>
  <li>To-morrow, good Sir Michael, is a day</li>
  <li class="number">Wherein the fortune of ten thousand men</li>
  <li>Must bide the touch; for, sir, at Shrewsbury,</li>
  <li>As I am truly given to understand,</li>
  <li>The king with mighty and quick-raised power</li>
  <li>Meets with Lord Harry: and, I fear, Sir Michael,</li>
  <li class="number">What with the sickness of Northumberland,</li>
  <li>Whose power was in the first proportion,</li>
  <li>And what with Owen Glendower's absence thence,</li>
  <li>Who with them was a rated sinew too</li>
  <li>And comes not in, o'er-ruled by prophecies,</li>
  <li class="number">I fear the power of Percy is too weak</li>
  <li>To wage an instant trial with the king.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SIR MICHAEL</li>
  <li>Why, my good lord, you need not fear;</li>
  <li>There is Douglas and Lord Mortimer.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</li>
  <li>No, Mortimer is not there.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SIR MICHAEL</li>
  <li class="number">But there is Mordake, Vernon, Lord Harry Percy,</li>
  <li>And there is my Lord of Worcester and a head</li>
  <li>Of gallant warriors, noble gentlemen.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</li>
  <li>And so there is: but yet the king hath drawn</li>
  <li>The special head of all the land together:</li>
  <li class="number">The Prince of Wales, Lord John of Lancaster,</li>
  <li>The noble Westmoreland and warlike Blunt;</li>
  <li>And moe corrivals and dear men</li>
  <li>Of estimation and command in arms.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SIR MICHAEL</li>
  <li>Doubt not, my lord, they shall be well opposed.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</li>
  <li class="number">I hope no less, yet needful 'tis to fear;</li>
  <li>And, to prevent the worst, Sir Michael, speed:</li>
  <li>For if Lord Percy thrive not, ere the king</li>
  <li>Dismiss his power, he means to visit us,</li>
  <li>For he hath heard of our confederacy,</li>
  <li class="number">And 'tis but wisdom to make strong against him:</li>
  <li>Therefore make haste. I must go write again</li>
  <li>To other friends; and so farewell, Sir Michael.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT V</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  KING HENRY IV's camp near Shrewsbury.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter KING HENRY, PRINCE HENRY, Lord John of
LANCASTER, EARL OF WESTMORELAND, SIR WALTER BLUNT,
and FALSTAFF</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>How bloodily the sun begins to peer</li>
  <li>Above yon busky hill! the day looks pale</li>
  <li>At his distemperature.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>The southern wind</li>
  <li class="number">Doth play the trumpet to his purposes,</li>
  <li>And by his hollow whistling in the leaves</li>
  <li>Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>Then with the losers let it sympathize,</li>
  <li>For nothing can seem foul to those that win.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">The trumpet sounds</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter WORCESTER and VERNON</li>
  <li class="number">How now, my Lord of Worcester! 'tis not well</li>
  <li>That you and I should meet upon such terms</li>
  <li>As now we meet. You have deceived our trust,</li>
  <li>And made us doff our easy robes of peace,</li>
  <li>To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel:</li>
  <li class="number">This is not well, my lord, this is not well.</li>
  <li>What say you to it? will you again unknit</li>
  <li>This curlish knot of all-abhorred war?</li>
  <li>And move in that obedient orb again</li>
  <li>Where you did give a fair and natural light,</li>
  <li class="number">And be no more an exhaled meteor,</li>
  <li>A prodigy of fear and a portent</li>
  <li>Of broached mischief to the unborn times?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>Hear me, my liege:</li>
  <li>For mine own part, I could be well content</li>
  <li class="number">To entertain the lag-end of my life</li>
  <li>With quiet hours; for I do protest,</li>
  <li>I have not sought the day of this dislike.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>You have not sought it! how comes it, then?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Peace, chewet, peace!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>It pleased your majesty to turn your looks</li>
  <li>Of favour from myself and all our house;</li>
  <li>And yet I must remember you, my lord,</li>
  <li>We were the first and dearest of your friends.</li>
  <li class="number">For you my staff of office did I break</li>
  <li>In Richard's time; and posted day and night</li>
  <li>to meet you on the way, and kiss your hand,</li>
  <li>When yet you were in place and in account</li>
  <li>Nothing so strong and fortunate as I.</li>
  <li class="number">It was myself, my brother and his son,</li>
  <li>That brought you home and boldly did outdare</li>
  <li>The dangers of the time. You swore to us,</li>
  <li>And you did swear that oath at Doncaster,</li>
  <li>That you did nothing purpose 'gainst the state;</li>
  <li class="number">Nor claim no further than your new-fall'n right,</li>
  <li>The seat of Gaunt, dukedom of Lancaster:</li>
  <li>To this we swore our aid. But in short space</li>
  <li>It rain'd down fortune showering on your head;</li>
  <li>And such a flood of greatness fell on you,</li>
  <li class="number">What with our help, what with the absent king,</li>
  <li>What with the injuries of a wanton time,</li>
  <li>The seeming sufferances that you had borne,</li>
  <li>And the contrarious winds that held the king</li>
  <li>So long in his unlucky Irish wars</li>
  <li class="number">That all in England did repute him dead:</li>
  <li>And from this swarm of fair advantages</li>
  <li>You took occasion to be quickly woo'd</li>
  <li>To gripe the general sway into your hand;</li>
  <li>Forget your oath to us at Doncaster;</li>
  <li class="number">And being fed by us you used us so</li>
  <li>As that ungentle hull, the cuckoo's bird,</li>
  <li>Useth the sparrow; did oppress our nest;</li>
  <li>Grew by our feeding to so great a bulk</li>
  <li>That even our love durst not come near your sight</li>
  <li class="number">For fear of swallowing; but with nimble wing</li>
  <li>We were enforced, for safety sake, to fly</li>
  <li>Out of sight and raise this present head;</li>
  <li>Whereby we stand opposed by such means</li>
  <li>As you yourself have forged against yourself</li>
  <li class="number">By unkind usage, dangerous countenance,</li>
  <li>And violation of all faith and troth</li>
  <li>Sworn to us in your younger enterprise.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>These things indeed you have articulate,</li>
  <li>Proclaim'd at market-crosses, read in churches,</li>
  <li class="number">To face the garment of rebellion</li>
  <li>With some fine colour that may please the eye</li>
  <li>Of fickle changelings and poor discontents,</li>
  <li>Which gape and rub the elbow at the news</li>
  <li>Of hurlyburly innovation:</li>
  <li class="number">And never yet did insurrection want</li>
  <li>Such water-colours to impaint his cause;</li>
  <li>Nor moody beggars, starving for a time</li>
  <li>Of pellmell havoc and confusion.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>In both your armies there is many a soul</li>
  <li class="number">Shall pay full dearly for this encounter,</li>
  <li>If once they join in trial. Tell your nephew,</li>
  <li>The Prince of Wales doth join with all the world</li>
  <li>In praise of Henry Percy: by my hopes,</li>
  <li>This present enterprise set off his head,</li>
  <li class="number">I do not think a braver gentleman,</li>
  <li>More active-valiant or more valiant-young,</li>
  <li>More daring or more bold, is now alive</li>
  <li>To grace this latter age with noble deeds.</li>
  <li>For my part, I may speak it to my shame,</li>
  <li class="number">I have a truant been to chivalry;</li>
  <li>And so I hear he doth account me too;</li>
  <li>Yet this before my father's majesty — </li>
  <li>I am content that he shall take the odds</li>
  <li>Of his great name and estimation,</li>
  <li class="number">And will, to save the blood on either side,</li>
  <li>Try fortune with him in a single fight.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>And, Prince of Wales, so dare we venture thee,</li>
  <li>Albeit considerations infinite</li>
  <li>Do make against it. No, good Worcester, no,</li>
  <li class="number">We love our people well; even those we love</li>
  <li>That are misled upon your cousin's part;</li>
  <li>And, will they take the offer of our grace,</li>
  <li>Both he and they and you, every man</li>
  <li>Shall be my friend again and I'll be his:</li>
  <li class="number">So tell your cousin, and bring me word</li>
  <li>What he will do: but if he will not yield,</li>
  <li>Rebuke and dread correction wait on us</li>
  <li>And they shall do their office. So, be gone;</li>
  <li>We will not now be troubled with reply:</li>
  <li class="number">We offer fair; take it advisedly.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt WORCESTER and VERNON</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>It will not be accepted, on my life:</li>
  <li>The Douglas and the Hotspur both together</li>
  <li>Are confident against the world in arms.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;</li>
  <li class="number">For, on their answer, will we set on them:</li>
  <li>And God befriend us, as our cause is just!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt all but PRINCE HENRY and FALSTAFF</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Hal, if thou see me down in the battle and bestride</li>
  <li>me, so; 'tis a point of friendship.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Nothing but a colossus can do thee that friendship.</li>
  <li class="number">Say thy prayers, and farewell.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>I  would 'twere bed-time, Hal, and all well.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Why, thou owest God a death.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit PRINCE HENRY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>'Tis not due yet; I would be loath to pay him before</li>
  <li>his day. What need I be so forward with him that</li>
  <li class="number">calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter; honour pricks</li>
  <li>me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I</li>
  <li>come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or</li>
  <li>an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no.</li>
  <li>Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is</li>
  <li class="number">honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what</li>
  <li>is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it?</li>
  <li>he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no.</li>
  <li>Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then. Yea,</li>
  <li>to the dead. But will it not live with the living?</li>
  <li class="number">no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore</li>
  <li>I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so</li>
  <li>ends my catechism.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  The rebel camp.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter WORCESTER and VERNON</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>O, no, my nephew must not know, Sir Richard,</li>
  <li>The liberal and kind offer of the king.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VERNON</li>
  <li>'Twere best he did.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>Then are we all undone.</li>
  <li class="number">It is not possible, it cannot be,</li>
  <li>The king should keep his word in loving us;</li>
  <li>He will suspect us still and find a time</li>
  <li>To punish this offence in other faults:</li>
  <li>Suspicion all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes;</li>
  <li class="number">For treason is but trusted like the fox,</li>
  <li>Who, ne'er so tame, so cherish'd and lock'd up,</li>
  <li>Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.</li>
  <li>Look how we can, or sad or merrily,</li>
  <li>Interpretation will misquote our looks,</li>
  <li class="number">And we shall feed like oxen at a stall,</li>
  <li>The better cherish'd, still the nearer death.</li>
  <li>My nephew's trespass may be well forgot;</li>
  <li>it hath the excuse of youth and heat of blood,</li>
  <li>And an adopted name of privilege,</li>
  <li class="number">A hair-brain'd Hotspur, govern'd by a spleen:</li>
  <li>All his offences live upon my head</li>
  <li>And on his father's; we did train him on,</li>
  <li>And, his corruption being ta'en from us,</li>
  <li>We, as the spring of all, shall pay for all.</li>
  <li class="number">Therefore, good cousin, let not Harry know,</li>
  <li>In any case, the offer of the king.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VERNON</li>
  <li>Deliver what you will; I'll say 'tis so.</li>
  <li>Here comes your cousin.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter HOTSPUR and DOUGLAS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>My uncle is return'd:</li>
  <li class="number">Deliver up my Lord of Westmoreland.</li>
  <li>Uncle, what news?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>The king will bid you battle presently.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF DOUGLAS</li>
  <li>Defy him by the Lord of Westmoreland.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Lord Douglas, go you and tell him so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF DOUGLAS</li>
  <li class="number">Marry, and shall, and very willingly.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>There is no seeming mercy in the king.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Did you beg any? God forbid!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>I told him gently of our grievances,</li>
  <li>Of his oath-breaking; which he mended thus,</li>
  <li class="number">By now forswearing that he is forsworn:</li>
  <li>He calls us rebels, traitors; and will scourge</li>
  <li>With haughty arms this hateful name in us.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter the EARL OF DOUGLAS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF DOUGLAS</li>
  <li>Arm, gentlemen; to arms! for I have thrown</li>
  <li>A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth,</li>
  <li class="number">And Westmoreland, that was engaged, did bear it;</li>
  <li>Which cannot choose but bring him quickly on.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>The Prince of Wales stepp'd forth before the king,</li>
  <li>And, nephew, challenged you to single fight.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>O, would the quarrel lay upon our heads,</li>
  <li class="number">And that no man might draw short breath today</li>
  <li>But I and Harry Monmouth! Tell me, tell me,</li>
  <li>How show'd his tasking? seem'd it in contempt?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VERNON</li>
  <li>No, by my soul; I never in my life</li>
  <li>Did hear a challenge urged more modestly,</li>
  <li class="number">Unless a brother should a brother dare</li>
  <li>To gentle exercise and proof of arms.</li>
  <li>He gave you all the duties of a man;</li>
  <li>Trimm'd up your praises with a princely tongue,</li>
  <li>Spoke to your deservings like a chronicle,</li>
  <li class="number">Making you ever better than his praise</li>
  <li>By still dispraising praise valued in you;</li>
  <li>And, which became him like a prince indeed,</li>
  <li>He made a blushing cital of himself;</li>
  <li>And chid his truant youth with such a grace</li>
  <li class="number">As if he master'd there a double spirit.</li>
  <li>Of teaching and of learning instantly.</li>
  <li>There did he pause: but let me tell the world,</li>
  <li>If he outlive the envy of this day,</li>
  <li>England did never owe so sweet a hope,</li>
  <li class="number">So much misconstrued in his wantonness.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Cousin, I think thou art enamoured</li>
  <li>On his follies: never did I hear</li>
  <li>Of any prince so wild a libertine.</li>
  <li>But be he as he will, yet once ere night</li>
  <li class="number">I will embrace him with a soldier's arm,</li>
  <li>That he shall shrink under my courtesy.</li>
  <li>Arm, arm with speed: and, fellows, soldiers, friends,</li>
  <li>Better consider what you have to do</li>
  <li>Than I, that have not well the gift of tongue,</li>
  <li class="number">Can lift your blood up with persuasion.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter a Messenger</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>My lord, here are letters for you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>I cannot read them now.</li>
  <li>O gentlemen, the time of life is short!</li>
  <li>To spend that shortness basely were too long,</li>
  <li class="number">If life did ride upon a dial's point,</li>
  <li>Still ending at the arrival of an hour.</li>
  <li>An if we live, we live to tread on kings;</li>
  <li>If die, brave death, when princes die with us!</li>
  <li>Now, for our consciences, the arms are fair,</li>
  <li class="number">When the intent of bearing them is just.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter another Messenger</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>My lord, prepare; the king comes on apace.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>I thank him, that he cuts me from my tale,</li>
  <li>For I profess not talking; only this — </li>
  <li>Let each man do his best: and here draw I</li>
  <li class="number">A sword, whose temper I intend to stain</li>
  <li>With the best blood that I can meet withal</li>
  <li>In the adventure of this perilous day.</li>
  <li>Now, Esperance! Percy! and set on.</li>
  <li>Sound all the lofty instruments of war,</li>
  <li class="number">And by that music let us all embrace;</li>
  <li>For, heaven to earth, some of us never shall</li>
  <li>A second time do such a courtesy.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">The trumpets sound. They embrace, and exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  Plain between the camps.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">KING HENRY enters with his power. Alarum to the
battle. Then enter DOUGLAS and SIR WALTER BLUNT</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SIR WALTER BLUNT</li>
  <li>What is thy name, that in the battle thus</li>
  <li>Thou crossest me? what honour dost thou seek</li>
  <li>Upon my head?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF DOUGLAS</li>
  <li>Know then, my name is Douglas;</li>
  <li class="number">And I do haunt thee in the battle thus</li>
  <li>Because some tell me that thou art a king.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SIR WALTER BLUNT</li>
  <li>They tell thee true.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF DOUGLAS</li>
  <li>The Lord of Stafford dear to-day hath bought</li>
  <li>Thy likeness, for instead of thee, King Harry,</li>
  <li class="number">This sword hath ended him: so shall it thee,</li>
  <li>Unless thou yield thee as my prisoner.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SIR WALTER BLUNT</li>
  <li>I was not born a yielder, thou proud Scot;</li>
  <li>And thou shalt find a king that will revenge</li>
  <li>Lord Stafford's death.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">They fight. DOUGLAS kills SIR WALTER BLUNT.
Enter HOTSPUR</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li class="number">O Douglas, hadst thou fought at Holmedon thus,</li>
  <li>never had triumph'd upon a Scot.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF DOUGLAS</li>
  <li>All's done, all's won; here breathless lies the king.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>Where?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF DOUGLAS</li>
  <li>Here.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li class="number">This, Douglas? no: I know this face full well:</li>
  <li>A gallant knight he was, his name was Blunt;</li>
  <li>Semblably furnish'd like the king himself.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF DOUGLAS</li>
  <li>A fool go with thy soul, whither it goes!</li>
  <li>A borrow'd title hast thou bought too dear:</li>
  <li class="number">Why didst thou tell me that thou wert a king?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>The king hath many marching in his coats.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF DOUGLAS</li>
  <li>Now, by my sword, I will kill all his coats;</li>
  <li>I'll murder all his wardrobe, piece by piece,</li>
  <li>Until I meet the king.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li class="number">Up, and away!</li>
  <li>Our soldiers stand full fairly for the day.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Alarum. Enter FALSTAFF, solus</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Though I could 'scape shot-free at London, I fear</li>
  <li>the shot here; here's no scoring but upon the pate.</li>
  <li>Soft! who are you? Sir Walter Blunt: there's honour</li>
  <li class="number">for you! here's no vanity! I am as hot as moulten</li>
  <li>lead, and as heavy too: God keep lead out of me! I</li>
  <li>need no more weight than mine own bowels. I have</li>
  <li>led my ragamuffins where they are peppered: there's</li>
  <li>not three of my hundred and fifty left alive; and</li>
  <li class="number">they are for the town's end, to beg during life.</li>
  <li>But who comes here?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter PRINCE HENRY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>What, stand'st thou idle here? lend me thy sword:</li>
  <li>Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff</li>
  <li>Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies,</li>
  <li class="number">Whose deaths are yet unrevenged: I prithee,</li>
  <li>lend me thy sword.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>O Hal, I prithee, give me leave to breathe awhile.</li>
  <li>Turk Gregory never did such deeds in arms as I have</li>
  <li>done this day. I have paid Percy, I have made him sure.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">He is, indeed; and living to kill thee. I prithee,</li>
  <li>lend me thy sword.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Nay, before God, Hal, if Percy be alive, thou get'st</li>
  <li>not my sword; but take my pistol, if thou wilt.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Give it to me: what, is it in the case?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li class="number">Ay, Hal; 'tis hot, 'tis hot; there's that will sack a city.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">PRINCE HENRY draws it out, and finds it to be a
bottle of sack</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>What, is it a time to jest and dally now?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">He throws the bottle at him. Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Well, if Percy be alive, I'll pierce him. If he do</li>
  <li>come in my way, so: if he do not, if I come in his</li>
  <li>willingly, let him make a carbonado of me. I like</li>
  <li class="number">not such grinning honour as Sir Walter hath: give me</li>
  <li>life: which if I can save, so; if not, honour comes</li>
  <li>unlooked for, and there's an end.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit FALSTAFF</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE IV.  Another part of the field.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Alarum. Excursions. Enter PRINCE HENRY, LORD JOHN
OF LANCASTER, and EARL OF WESTMORELAND</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>I prithee,</li>
  <li>Harry, withdraw thyself; thou bleed'st too much.</li>
  <li>Lord John of Lancaster, go you with him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LANCASTER</li>
  <li>Not I, my lord, unless I did bleed too.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">I beseech your majesty, make up,</li>
  <li>Lest your retirement do amaze your friends.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>I will do so.</li>
  <li>My Lord of Westmoreland, lead him to his tent.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li>Come, my lord, I'll lead you to your tent.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Lead me, my lord? I do not need your help:</li>
  <li>And God forbid a shallow scratch should drive</li>
  <li>The Prince of Wales from such a field as this,</li>
  <li>Where stain'd nobility lies trodden on,</li>
  <li>and rebels' arms triumph in massacres!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LANCASTER</li>
  <li class="number">We breathe too long: come, cousin Westmoreland,</li>
  <li>Our duty this way lies; for God's sake come.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt LANCASTER and WESTMORELAND</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>By God, thou hast deceived me, Lancaster;</li>
  <li>I did not think thee lord of such a spirit:</li>
  <li>Before, I loved thee as a brother, John;</li>
  <li class="number">But now, I do respect thee as my soul.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>I saw him hold Lord Percy at the point</li>
  <li>With lustier maintenance than I did look for</li>
  <li>Of such an ungrown warrior.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>O, this boy</li>
  <li class="number">Lends mettle to us all!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter DOUGLAS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF DOUGLAS</li>
  <li>Another king! they grow like Hydra's heads:</li>
  <li>I am the Douglas, fatal to all those</li>
  <li>That wear those colours on them: what art thou,</li>
  <li>That counterfeit'st the person of a king?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li class="number">The king himself; who, Douglas, grieves at heart</li>
  <li>So many of his shadows thou hast met</li>
  <li>And not the very king. I have two boys</li>
  <li>Seek Percy and thyself about the field:</li>
  <li>But, seeing thou fall'st on me so luckily,</li>
  <li class="number">I will assay thee: so, defend thyself.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF DOUGLAS</li>
  <li>I fear thou art another counterfeit;</li>
  <li>And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king:</li>
  <li>But mine I am sure thou art, whoe'er thou be,</li>
  <li>And thus I win thee.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">They fight. KING HENRY being in danger, PRINCE
HENRY enters</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li class="number">Hold up thy head, vile Scot, or thou art like</li>
  <li>Never to hold it up again! the spirits</li>
  <li>Of valiant Shirley, Stafford, Blunt, are in my arms:</li>
  <li>It is the Prince of Wales that threatens thee;</li>
  <li>Who never promiseth but he means to pay.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">They fight: DOUGLAS flies</li>
  <li class="number">Cheerly, my lord how fares your grace?</li>
  <li>Sir Nicholas Gawsey hath for succor sent,</li>
  <li>And so hath Clifton: I'll to Clifton straight.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>Stay, and breathe awhile:</li>
  <li>Thou hast redeem'd thy lost opinion,</li>
  <li class="number">And show'd thou makest some tender of my life,</li>
  <li>In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>O God! they did me too much injury</li>
  <li>That ever said I hearken'd for your death.</li>
  <li>If it were so, I might have let alone</li>
  <li class="number">The insulting hand of Douglas over you,</li>
  <li>Which would have been as speedy in your end</li>
  <li>As all the poisonous potions in the world</li>
  <li>And saved the treacherous labour of your son.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>Make up to Clifton: I'll to Sir Nicholas Gawsey.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter HOTSPUR</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li class="number">If I mistake not, thou art Harry Monmouth.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Thou speak'st as if I would deny my name.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>My name is Harry Percy.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Why, then I see</li>
  <li>A very valiant rebel of the name.</li>
  <li class="number">I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy,</li>
  <li>To share with me in glory any more:</li>
  <li>Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere;</li>
  <li>Nor can one England brook a double reign,</li>
  <li>Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li class="number">Nor shall it, Harry; for the hour is come</li>
  <li>To end the one of us; and would to God</li>
  <li>Thy name in arms were now as great as mine!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>I'll make it greater ere I part from thee;</li>
  <li>And all the budding honours on thy crest</li>
  <li class="number">I'll crop, to make a garland for my head.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>I can no longer brook thy vanities.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">They fight</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter FALSTAFF</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Well said, Hal! to it Hal! Nay, you shall find no</li>
  <li>boy's play here, I can tell you.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter DOUGLAS; he fights with FALSTAFF,
who falls down as if he were dead, and exit
DOUGLAS. HOTSPUR is wounded, and falls</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HOTSPUR</li>
  <li>O, Harry, thou hast robb'd me of my youth!</li>
  <li class="number">I better brook the loss of brittle life</li>
  <li>Than those proud titles thou hast won of me;</li>
  <li>They wound my thoughts worse than sword my flesh:</li>
  <li>But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;</li>
  <li>And time, that takes survey of all the world,</li>
  <li class="number">Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy,</li>
  <li>But that the earthy and cold hand of death</li>
  <li>Lies on my tongue: no, Percy, thou art dust</li>
  <li>And food for — </li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Dies</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>For worms, brave Percy: fare thee well, great heart!</li>
  <li class="number">Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!</li>
  <li>When that this body did contain a spirit,</li>
  <li>A kingdom for it was too small a bound;</li>
  <li>But now two paces of the vilest earth</li>
  <li>Is room enough: this earth that bears thee dead</li>
  <li class="number">Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.</li>
  <li>If thou wert sensible of courtesy,</li>
  <li>I should not make so dear a show of zeal:</li>
  <li>But let my favours hide thy mangled face;</li>
  <li>And, even in thy behalf, I'll thank myself</li>
  <li class="number">For doing these fair rites of tenderness.</li>
  <li>Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven!</li>
  <li>Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave,</li>
  <li>But not remember'd in thy epitaph!</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">He spieth FALSTAFF on the ground</li>
  <li>What, old acquaintance! could not all this flesh</li>
  <li class="number">Keep in a little life? Poor Jack, farewell!</li>
  <li>I could have better spared a better man:</li>
  <li>O, I should have a heavy miss of thee,</li>
  <li>If I were much in love with vanity!</li>
  <li>Death hath not struck so fat a deer to-day,</li>
  <li class="number">Though many dearer, in this bloody fray.</li>
  <li>Embowell'd will I see thee by and by:</li>
  <li>Till then in blood by noble Percy lie.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit PRINCE HENRY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Rising up  Embowelled! if thou embowel me to-day,</li>
  <li>I'll give you leave to powder me and eat me too</li>
  <li class="number">to-morrow. 'Sblood,'twas time to counterfeit, or</li>
  <li>that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too.</li>
  <li>Counterfeit? I lie, I am no counterfeit: to die,</li>
  <li>is to be a counterfeit; for he is but the</li>
  <li>counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man:</li>
  <li class="number">but to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby</li>
  <li>liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and</li>
  <li>perfect image of life indeed. The better part of</li>
  <li>valour is discretion; in the which better part I</li>
  <li>have saved my life.'Zounds, I am afraid of this</li>
  <li class="number">gunpowder Percy, though he be dead: how, if he</li>
  <li>should counterfeit too and rise? by my faith, I am</li>
  <li>afraid he would prove the better counterfeit.</li>
  <li>Therefore I'll make him sure; yea, and I'll swear I</li>
  <li>killed him. Why may not he rise as well as I?</li>
  <li class="number">Nothing confutes me but eyes, and nobody sees me.</li>
  <li>Therefore, sirrah,</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Stabbing him</li>
  <li>with a new wound in your thigh, come you along with me.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Takes up HOTSPUR on his back</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter PRINCE HENRY and LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Come, brother John; full bravely hast thou flesh'd</li>
  <li>Thy maiden sword.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LANCASTER</li>
  <li class="number">But, soft! whom have we here?</li>
  <li>Did you not tell me this fat man was dead?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>I did; I saw him dead,</li>
  <li>Breathless and bleeding on the ground. Art</li>
  <li>thou alive?</li>
  <li class="number">Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight?</li>
  <li>I prithee, speak; we will not trust our eyes</li>
  <li>Without our ears: thou art not what thou seem'st.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>No, that's certain; I am not a double man: but if I</li>
  <li>be not Jack Falstaff, then am I a Jack. There is Percy:</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Throwing the body down</li>
  <li class="number">if your father will do me any honour, so; if not, let</li>
  <li>him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either</li>
  <li>earl or duke, I can assure you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Why, Percy I killed myself and saw thee dead.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>Didst thou? Lord, Lord, how this world is given to</li>
  <li class="number">lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath;</li>
  <li>and so was he: but we rose both at an instant and</li>
  <li>fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may be</li>
  <li>believed, so; if not, let them that should reward</li>
  <li>valour bear the sin upon their own heads. I'll take</li>
  <li class="number">it upon my death, I gave him this wound in the</li>
  <li>thigh: if the man were alive and would deny it,</li>
  <li>'zounds, I would make him eat a piece of my sword.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LANCASTER</li>
  <li>This is the strangest tale that ever I heard.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>This is the strangest fellow, brother John.</li>
  <li class="number">Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back:</li>
  <li>For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,</li>
  <li>I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">A retreat is sounded</li>
  <li>The trumpet sounds retreat; the day is ours.</li>
  <li>Come, brother, let us to the highest of the field,</li>
  <li class="number">To see what friends are living, who are dead.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt PRINCE HENRY and LANCASTER</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FALSTAFF</li>
  <li>I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that</li>
  <li>rewards me, God reward him! If I do grow great,</li>
  <li>I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and</li>
  <li>live cleanly as a nobleman should do.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE V.  Another part of the field.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">The trumpets sound. Enter KING HENRY IV, PRINCE
HENRY, LORD JOHN LANCASTER, EARL OF WESTMORELAND,
with WORCESTER and VERNON prisoners</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.</li>
  <li>Ill-spirited Worcester! did not we send grace,</li>
  <li>Pardon and terms of love to all of you?</li>
  <li>And wouldst thou turn our offers contrary?</li>
  <li class="number">Misuse the tenor of thy kinsman's trust?</li>
  <li>Three knights upon our party slain to-day,</li>
  <li>A noble earl and many a creature else</li>
  <li>Had been alive this hour,</li>
  <li>If like a Christian thou hadst truly borne</li>
  <li class="number">Betwixt our armies true intelligence.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EARL OF WORCESTER</li>
  <li>What I have done my safety urged me to;</li>
  <li>And I embrace this fortune patiently,</li>
  <li>Since not to be avoided it falls on me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li>Bear Worcester to the death and Vernon too:</li>
  <li class="number">Other offenders we will pause upon.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exeunt WORCESTER and VERNON, guarded</li>
  <li>How goes the field?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>The noble Scot, Lord Douglas, when he saw</li>
  <li>The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him,</li>
  <li>The noble Percy slain, and all his men</li>
  <li class="number">Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest;</li>
  <li>And falling from a hill, he was so bruised</li>
  <li>That the pursuers took him. At my tent</li>
  <li>The Douglas is; and I beseech your grace</li>
  <li>I may dispose of him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li class="number">With all my heart.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PRINCE HENRY</li>
  <li>Then, brother John of Lancaster, to you</li>
  <li>This honourable bounty shall belong:</li>
  <li>Go to the Douglas, and deliver him</li>
  <li>Up to his pleasure, ransomless and free:</li>
  <li class="number">His valour shown upon our crests to-day</li>
  <li>Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds</li>
  <li>Even in the bosom of our adversaries.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LANCASTER</li>
  <li>I thank your grace for this high courtesy,</li>
  <li>Which I shall give away immediately.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY IV</li>
  <li class="number">Then this remains, that we divide our power.</li>
  <li>You, son John, and my cousin Westmoreland</li>
  <li>Towards York shall bend you with your dearest speed,</li>
  <li>To meet Northumberland and the prelate Scroop,</li>
  <li>Who, as we hear, are busily in arms:</li>
  <li class="number">Myself and you, son Harry, will towards Wales,</li>
  <li>To fight with Glendower and the Earl of March.</li>
  <li>Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,</li>
  <li>Meeting the cheque of such another day:</li>
  <li>And since this business so fair is done,</li>
  <li class="number">Let us not leave till all our own be won.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

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